Lately I’ve been really impressed with the presence of the spiritual realm. The concept that there’s more out there than meets the eye, another level of reality participating in, but invisible to, our own, is something that I’ve grasped cognitively, but lately the reality of it has really began to sink in.
I know that there are demonic forces at play around me, trying to get me to do certain things. I know that there are angelic forces also, and they are working against the evil, in hopes that I will do certain things. There was a time in my life when I would have thought that the best I, as a mere mortal, could hope for was to do the good things more than the bad things, and hope the score-card looked relatively good, or at least balanced, at the end of life. But I’m wondering now how important it is to just be aware of it out there…or, more importantly, in here. To know that there are angels and demons looking over my shoulder as I write this, to know that demons will be tempting me to fall into evil and angels will be protecting me from harm throughout the course of this day. At the risk of digressing into Frank Peretti’s concept of this realm locked in invisible combat around us at any given moment, I’m suddenly impressed that it’s true.
That leads me to ponder what it is that God wants me to see. I fear we have limited our own perceptions as a culture, convinced ourselves that things beyond hard scientific proof are non-existant. I think, perhaps, this where the artist is so gifted, because he is not afraid to acknowledge and participate in the other-worldly realm. I think that God has so much more for us to be aware of than we are. Certainly, there is a specific spiritual gift dedicated to this awareness, and the Holy Spirit does not give it to everyone. But there is a general awareness of it, as well…a general awareness that we should all have.
So, what if that person who crosses your path today doesn’t cross it by chance, but by design? What if that near miss in traffic today wasn’t freak chance, but occurred for a purpose? What if He’s trying to tell you something, trying to get us to see something?
What if there’s so much more to this physical, mortal life than we can see, than we want to see?
What if?