Time for a big one because I was asked, on a few occasions of late, about updates on the supernatural encounters that sometimes roll through my life and so I figured I'd post something on it. It ended up being three posts in total, but only this post is about my encounters.
1. In the past three days I have encountered a moving shadow of sorts in my bedroom, twice. It doesn’t talk and it doesn’t take a defined form. Surprisingly it doesn’t even make me nervous.
2. The nightly whispers (not house creeks or noisy neighbors) have subsided in large part after a couple month stint of rather late nights. I'm thankful for this temporary reprieve as it makes for rough sleeping.
3. One night about a month ago, the night before going out door-to-door to talk about searchlight and worship (See post "Ding Dong Yo") I was visited by something unruly. The only reason the encounter stood out is that at one point, wide awake and watching cartoons, it blew a cold puff of air in my left ear. So much so that my hair moved; as if someone had leaned a few inches from my head and let a quick burst of breath out. I prayed and it moved back to the far side of the room for the remainder of the night.
These aside very few encounters have passed my way lately, but I couldn't tell you why. Certainly nothing as intense as the couch encounters that, come to think of it, I don't know if I ever wrote about...at least I can't find it if I did.
Generally I steer clear of posting on this stuff for one reason. I leave these tales untold because it seems very few people have a biblical view of the supernatural and, because they do not interpret the world (both natural and super-natural) with such a biblical worldview, opinions vary greatly on whether the supernatural even exists let alone if my experiances are truth or not. Meaning that without a biblical worldview to guide understanding people get lost easily, being swayed by all manner of ideas. Consequently some disregard the supernatural entirely while others embrace it falsely.
If we are Christ-followers then let us not believe the tall tales the world has come up over the word of God. If we claim the bible is truth and that God is absolute in His determinations of reality, then let us not accept extra-biblical information when it conflicts. (e.g. ghosts, aliens, monsters, dimensional creatures, etc) Either God's claims are right or not, we can't have a bit of both when dealing with the thoughts of a perfect being. People generally miss-understand what the supernatural is, what is and isn't really going on, and having no background on how to interpret it, re-interpret what I might say to fit their favored ideas of the super-natural. This is why I avoid it in general conversation even though I enjoy the topic.
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