Smashing Pumpkins

And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it should obey you. (Luke 17:6)

I once had an unusual incident that proved to me the truth of this saying. I believe the year was 1994.  It was late October, just before Halloween.

A friend of mine and I were splitting an apartment in a complex. It was a Saturday night which was our Bible study night.  We got our stuff together and we were heading out the door.  Just outside the back door of the apartment someone had just placed a freshly carved jack-o-lantern. 

For some reason as I walked out the back door, the jack-o-lantern caught my attention.  I suppose that it was the fact that the pumpkin had been carved with such an evil look.  After a few steps I turned around and shouted at the pumpkin and said, 'I curse thee in the name of Jesus'.  My roommate and I kinda chuckled a bit at my blurting that out and we went on our way to Bible class without giving it a second thought.

We had our bible class and returned back home.  We got out of the car and began walking back to the apartment door from whence we left.  Suddenly my roommate stopped, his jaw dropping to the parking lot surface.  I looked at him, 'what the heck is your problem?'  He pointed over at the jack-o-lantern.

I too turned to look and my eyes about bugged out of my head.  While we had been gone, oh, a total of about 4 hours, The freshly carved pumpkin had completely rotted and collapsed!  We walked up to it and examined it.  It was all black and mushy as if it had been rotting there for weeks.  We just kind of looked at each other, and went back inside.  Lesson learned.