Tuesday, June 23, 2009

A Word of Knowledge? Perhaps

It's been a hectic time over the last few weeks. There's been some bad news in the family, work has been just mad, we have a new boss, etc. Also, my faithful dog died, so we are a household in mourning at the moment. Amidst it all, the death of someone I knew very little about, and who wouldn't have known me at all actually came as the biggest shock. I had made a casual remark a month earlier about the life expectancy of the person, predicting that they would be dead within three months. There was no reason to believe the person would die, except for an overwhelming desire to pray for them . You see, it's not the first time it's happened, but this time the death was not from natural causes, nor the result of old age, etc. It was a complete shock to the family, yet I had been so certain. As I say, it has happened before, preceded by an overwhelming desire to pray for that person. It freaked me out when it actually came to pass though. I can only hope that my inner prompting served the purposed of God in some way - as I did in fact pray for this person who was so much a stranger to me.
One thing that I have been able to give thanks for is that, in all my intellectualising about how to cut through the mental and attain the spiritual, it is God who has cut through it to meet me on spiritual terms, not the other way around. This is as it should be I think though, and I rejoice that there is evidence that my faith really does reach beyond the natural to the supernatural elements of my life. I see evidence of the balance I seek between mind, body and spirit which I have longed for.

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