search of the paranormal, a world hunting for ghosts

We don't have to go far. A friend or two telling "ghost" stories and the hair stands up on my neck. And I remember fear, how close it always was. How paranormal never felt "normal" as a child, but was a terrifying occurrence for me and my Sister.

I've experienced enough of the paranormal to know it's material evidence of darkness.

Fascination with the paranormal has history. There have been many labels over the centuries but they all amount to the same-- spirit realm. And they come in two shades.

Dark or Light.

Paranormal is a testimony of Light because He came "to open their eyes, in order to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God" Acts 26:18

We operate in the spiritual every day and yet we're surprised by it, marveling at seeing the invisible like a blind person suddenly having sight. And we fumble without Light. Blindness is darkness unless you're a glow worm and if you're a Christian you're called to be a glow worm. Because he who "walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.” John 11:10.

Glow worms.

The world searches for paranormal or hauntings, a Love hunt gone awry. A counterfeit chasing since the Garden and we look anywhere but right where He is. We go all different directions, every which way but the narrow one.

We clothe ourselves with pleasure, or satisfaction, or entertainment, or relationships and change wardrobes, asking ourselves "Is this the one? The key to all my happiness and contentment? Is this how I become spiritual by worshipping the supernatural? Is this it or should I look for another?"

"When the men had come to Him {Jesus}, they said, "John the Baptist has sent us to You, saying, ‘Are You the Coming One, or do we look for another?’” Luke 7:20

It boils down to what we're looking for. The experience? Or the Creator of all experiences?

We carry an Eden-sized hole which needs to be back-filled like a bulldozer placing top-soil over hollowed out places to make a smooth surface.

It's the gaping divorce from a Garden, a breaking of fellowship by a gluttoned appetite of the heart, which has us eating from the world or paranormal.

We're walking wounded not always knowing our condition. Sick with sin-cancer, soul limping, ill from a choice-tainted fruit, and ingesting a serpent's poison at the Garden. We operate in our "normal" as if it's limited while secretly wanting the outer limits. We watch "Twilight Zone" with interest, but without any interest in God's miracle operations which exceed ozones and time zones, or that He created our twilight zone of stars, planets, milky ways.

The normal we need isn't confined in a "para", nor is natural suddenly a supernatural, nor is ordinary special when it becomes extra-ordinary. We live in both worlds, daily designed by the Creator of both, Himself. Men devise words to speak of what they don't understand, but we need Holy speech to understand at all.

"These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual." 1 Corinthians 2:13

We long for an Eden return, to walk by fellowship through an Adam's gate through Christ. And our withered post-Garden life is renovated to fruit-bearers when we abide in the Vine. Hole-ness filled by "the fullness of Him who fills all in all." Ephesians 1:23 

And it's His Spirit which groans among earthly tents. The search isn't a para at all. Ghosts are about our own inward souls wanting something to believe in and yet we're haunted by clanging chains which bind us to dust. We're hunting for truth, instead of Truth. And those that have Him, know the search is really about finding a Holy Ghost experience and our way back Home to wear the supernatural likes it natural.

 "..Because we do not wish to be unclothed

 but to be clothed instead with our

heavenly dwelling.." 2 Corinthian 5:4



Over at EE's for September's "Saturday Evening Post"