Christians are like pumpkins! (2009)

[mcgrissa]

I'd 1st heard this yrs.ago,when my son used it as an illustration for his kids.I'd never seen it written down until today,so thought that I'd share it with you.

How a Christian is like a Pumpkin

A lady recently being baptized was asked by a co-worker what it was like to be a Christian. She replied, "It's like being a pumpkin: 
God picks you from the patch, brings you in, and washes all the dirt off you may have gotten from the other pumpkins. 
Then he cuts the top off and scoops out all the yucky stuff. 
He removes the seeds of doubt, hate, greed, etc. 
Then He carves you a new smiling face and puts His light inside of you to shine for all the world to see."

1. Take a pumpkin. "You aren't a pumpkin, but all of us are something like one. God picks you from the patch, brings you in, and washes all the dirt off you may have gotten from the other pumpkins." Talk about how a pumpkin is like us: it has an outside and an inside. The outside is what people see. The inside is like our soul or our heart. A pumpkin left to itself will soon rot and die. We will die some day too." 

2. Carve out eyes and a small "o" shaped mouth.  As you make the holes and pull out the pieces of rind, ask people what they see inside (yucky stuff). "This is what we look like to others and what we are like when are hearts are not changed. The hearts of men are full of evil and there is madness in their hearts while they live (Ecclesiastes 9:3). How can we get rid of this icky stuff?" 

3. "God is the only one who can change our heart. But in order for God to change our heart we must become open to him." Carve an opening in the top of the pumpkin big enough to put your hand through. You might want to quote Revelation 3:20: Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me. 

4. Put in your hand and pull out the insides. "God scoops out all the yucky stuff inside of us. He removes the seeds of doubt, hate, impurity, and greed." Talk about the cross and how Jesus was willing to become messy for us, so that we might be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and from all your idols. I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws. (Ezekiel 36:25b-27). 

5. "But if we leave a pumpkin with just the insides taken out, then it's just hollow. We need to have a light inside that will truly make us alive! Jesus said, 'I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.' Add a light to the inside of the pumpkin. "When Jesus lives inside of you, you can glow! You will want to be kind and honest. You will want to please God, to help others, and to tell other people about your Friend and Lord." 

6. At this point you might want to carve the mouth into a smile! "God carves you a new smiling face and puts His light inside of you to shine for all the world to see."

Tags: halloween, pumpkin carving, christians, beliefs, convictions, scripture

Add A Comment

[trepsica]

Oct. 31, 2009 at 7:49 PM

then on november 1st (all saint's day) you haul them to the local methodist church and see how manys ways you can destory them. this year we are using the caterpault.

[sati769leigh]

Oct. 31, 2009 at 7:54 PM

even as a christian NO ONE is above greed, doubt, hate. expecially CHRISTIANS on the HATE part. CHristians are rather talented in that area.

[Dannille33]

Oct. 31, 2009 at 8:03 PM

Hey now ... why are we coming down on the Chritstains.. If you both like Halloween then why are you sitting at home just waiting for posts likes this to show up..

Sati769leigh... We are friends or so I though.. I also though you know I to was a Christian in all my journals I have posted that GOD is my main supporter. Yet you never judged me.

Why is it that this woman/mother/grandmother is sharing such wonderful meanings and yet she is bashed?

It saddens me that I am seeing such hate in alot of these posts tonight.. makes me wonder what I would see if I posted my Journey post. For it would be how I feel halloween has changed as well..

I have tried to help so many and tried to help others journal as well as therapy and such .. and to see how much hate is i these jouranls tonight..it's just maddness..

This is the second one I have seen by this writer and she has good things to share...

It seems that Halloween isn't just for all the bad things we call nightmares and such.. it's about bashing those that have kind hearts and just are moved to say things from their hearts..

I am so hurt that this writer/author of this entry cannot even write one journal with out a nasty judgemental comment..

 

[sati769leigh]

Oct. 31, 2009 at 9:46 PM

I am sorry  I think i got caught up in being angry about all the freaking halloween bashing going on in journals tonight. I did not intend my comment to reflect on my opinion of YOU. just feeling a lot of hate coming from the christian segment today and tonight on cafemom.

[lovemybabygirl7]

Nov. 1, 2009 at 10:07 AM

There is  no hate coming from this journal at all, I thought it was GREAT........ Thank you for reminding me the amazing things that God does with us