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The Attraction of Darkness




Don’t feel ashamed if you are curious of evil spirits or the supernatural world. There is a realm in which we cannot see but are heavily apart of, and essentially made for, and when our mundane, material lives are where we live mentally, we can only help but feel drawn to something which seems real, fascinating, and really quite exciting. Halloween marks a day of the year we search for it.


The supernatural world is a realm we attempt to understand through such words like miraculous and magical. We have a deep desire for something unearthly or supernatural. While we have a longing for real life, for wholeness, and perfection, we dually have this feeling we are running from something worse than a clown or a werewolf or a serial killer. We are also running from a place we’re not sure is avoidable.


The two sides of the supernatural are light and darkness, though we tend to only think of the dark side as the one to investigate and to fear.


Halloween accentuates these feelings. Perhaps you have your first exposure to witchcraft and think rather guiltily (or not), why am I drawn to this? You hear screams wailing from a front yard speaker on repeat and think, why do I laugh? You and your friends dress like vampires and feel powerful, playful, or just plain excited not to be wearing work clothes. Isn't it all a game? A distraction?


Ask the man demonically possessed hitting himself in the face on the street.


Playing with fire is horrifically destructive. People who are deep into the occult know it is no playground but most don't know how to get out, or are too afraid and deceived to try. People who are on the surface are allured into the attraction of evil. Many have already chosen to serve darkness and have already joined sides, which has been and will continue to lead to their destruction both earthly and eternally, physically and spiritually. But there are two sides, and separately enthralling is the one which ultimately wins.


Light is scary and impossibly supernatural. It is to be feared. It is our way out of darkness but not our way out of the supernatural world. It isn’t a rope to pull us back into “normal life” – to the visible world of things we can see – rather, to join the kingdom of God, which, like darkness, we cannot technically see its entire spiritual circumference, but we can see signs of it on earth.


It can feel like darkness is intensified because many followers of God have diluted their faith by personalizing it to a religious hobby, not something of another world which has the power to miraculously save spirits from eternity in hell. When people say Christianity is passive, dry, or conventional, they are merely referring to what they themselves have created on earth, not the supernatural presence of light. Those who follow darkness are drawn to its immediate shriek of something so real they don’t know how to describe it because it is bigger than themselves, but those who really follow light are also drawn to the same feeling of its mysterious power, completely engulfing, enchanting, and literally indescribable.


Darkness reminds us of mystery, and we like that. It is because God has put in each of us a desire to seek more than what we can see. Those who have had long exposure may even feel a crave for horror. But inwardly we do not like darkness. It is our greatest fear. We are born into it. There is this sense we have recognized since childhood that the world is not right. Adults have harmed us. Movies have scared us. Now, we try to rationalize it by joining darkness to show we can control it, or perhaps we avoid it altogether for fear it will rule over us. But Christ is the ultimate Light sent to bring us out of bondage (“He brought them out of darkness, the utter darkness, and broke away their chains.” – Psalms 107:14).


The God of light is over everything, even darkness. He only allows suffering and pain for a time before he completely destroys Satan and those who have chosen to follow Him. In Scripture the Lord even uses darkness: “He made darkness his canopy around him— the dark rain clouds of the sky.” – 2 Samuel 22:12 (see also Exodus 20:21). He created the state of “darkness”. He created the moon. He created night. But out of Him did not come evil itself; it is impossible for the Lord to be anything but good. Evil is a perverted twist on light. Satan is the essence of evil. And God will soon destroy everything evil so that there will be no more despair or darkness or death (see Job 10:20-22).


“If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.” (1 Corinthians 15:44). That is why we fear dying and we fear what is to come after we die. For those who choose to follow darkness, it is hell forever and ever. For those who choose light, it is full life forever and ever. But because of the gift of free will, God does not make anyone serve Him. Those who choose to live their lives without God will get their wish for all of eternity.


Today nor any day should we bother dismissing the spiritual world. We are spirits. We will always be spiritual. “The spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and after that the spiritual.” (1 Corinthians 15:46). Yet you cannot celebrate darkness and say you are living in the light (“Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.” – Isaiah 5:20). While darkness may appear to be fascinating, it is our greatest fear. But we do not have to fear it because of Christ.


Choose today whom you will serve.


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“For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.” – Ephesians 6:12


“Hate what is evil; cling to what is good.” – Romans 12:9)


“The light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it.” – John `1:5


"He reveals the deep things of darkness and brings utter darkness into the light.” – Job 12:22


‘Are not my few days almost over? Turn away from me so I can have a moment’s joy before I go to the place of no return, to the land of gloom and utter darkness, to the land of deepest night, of utter darkness and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”' – Job 10:20-22

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