Friday, September 13, 2013

Angels and demons


Tonight is friday the 13th, well that and Sabbath the 14th.  I’m sitting at work, my preceptor pulls out her phone and proceeds to turn on her ghost tracker.  She tells me all the places in the hospital and various other places that are haunted and where you see ghosts.  I told her I don’t really believe in ghosts.  I don’t believe that places are haunted per se.  She rallied most of the people working tonight and most of them believe, to one extent or another, in ghosts and things being haunted.

Others came around and told stories about how things are haunted or the places they have seen ghosts.  I’m a bible believing christian, how can I respond to this?  I’ve been thinking about it a bit now.   I don’t believe in ghosts or things being haunted, however I do believe in powers of darkness, ones that aren’t of this world.  I believe that satan and his angels have a presence in our world and that if you open yourself up to that, they will show themselves.

I recall a time in Nicaragua where I could feel the most evil presence I’ve ever felt.  I don’t know if the man was demon possessed, but the feelings I got from him was purely evil.  After that experience, I spent quite a bit of time with God, I felt I had to, it was an innate feeling.

I get that feeling a lot.  The feeling that I have to run home to daddy.  Whether its because I feel that I’ve ventured out to far from him, that I’ve experienced evil, or that  I just don’t know what I’m doing, all of these reasons are good enough for me to run to daddy.  Running home to daddy isn’t only a religious experience.  My daddy on this earth is an amazing man.  One that I’ve followed in his footsteps from a young age.  Sometimes, some situations, I run home to both.  Sometimes I just need to hear and feel that everything is going to be alright.

Back to today.  Do I feel that the room right behind me is haunted or that there are ghosts in my presence?  No, I think not.  I hope that any evil presence that comes my way sees that I have such a connection with my “daddy”-in-heaven that they won’t come anywhere near me, but if they do, i know exactly where I can run to in my time of need.  To a man that will always welcome me in his arms and tell me everything is alright and that nothing can separate me from his love.

I think Romans 8 says things very well.  In verse 15 it says “The Spirit that we received is not a spirit that makes us slaves again and causes us to fear. The Spirit that we have makes us God’s chosen children. And with that Spirit we cry out, “ Abba,[b] Father.” Abba really means Daddy.  Then in verses 38 and 39 it says “For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will separate me from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”  
I’m not sure if God put this promise in the bible just for me tonight or if there are far bigger and better reasons for it to be in the bible, but one thing I know, it is a comfort that there is NOTHING that can come between God and I and that He likes being called Daddy :)

So what am I doing in the here and now?  I decided it was time to pull out the iPad and play some of my favorite Christian music, mostly hymns done by Fernando Ortega.  Its an album called Beginnings.  I highly recommend it to anyone, regardless of circumstances :)