Are you ready for an encounter with God ? - 3
After my experience of being prayed for in a Christian home group,
I went back to my life as per normal,
with zero understanding of what I had experienced.
I had an encounter that was beyond my comprehension,
and I simply added this to my eclectic spiritual collection.
I had no idea that this encounter with the Eternal Spirit
would be revolutionary,
and
was going to pursue me ,
and change the course of my life
in a radical way.
Would you like to encounter this spiritual being ,
this person the Eternal Spirit ,
the Holy Ghost ,
the Holy Spirit ?
I went back to studying
Sigmund Freud
and
Margaret Mead ,
as per normal.
As I had no understanding of my Christian spiritual experience,
I was still open to deception.
I continued being influenced by Freud's materialistic outlook,
and forgot about God for a few months at Uni.
During this time I found that some of what I was studying previously,
was now starting to depress me.
Nietzsche and Bertrand Russell
mysteriously didn't have the same appeal anymore.
I found myself becoming very angry about the content of my studies,
as I perceived that many of these authors
that I was forced to study at Uni were like
" blind men searching for a black cat in a dark cellar
that wasn't there ."
I became even angrier when I researched the private lives
of these philosophers and found nothing but
alcoholism , family neglect ,
suicide, drug addiction,
and despair.
My dialectical reasoning was leading me to the
inescapable conclusion that the majority
of the esteemed philosophers
were sprouting complete nonsense.
But I was in a quandary ,
because I was studying for existential purposes,
not just to pass the course.
I wanted truth ,
and wasn't prepared to be a parrot of the pc establishment,
just to pass my subjects.
As I did not know at this stage
what the answer was ,
I descended into a feeling of violent rage against this hypocrisy.
By now my friends that I was living with had all embraced Jesus Christ,
and their lives had been radically transformed,
but I refused to attend Church with them,
being under a deception as to what Church was really all about.
I would be smoking dope with some of my Uni friends,
and getting more and more angry and confused,
as I saw that most of them were desperately unhappy with their lives.
Then going home to where my Christian friends
were full of joy and enjoying their lives,
and above all else happy !
The tension that I experienced at this time
was tearing me apart,
as I could make no sense of this seeming contradiction.
At Uni I was being told by depressed drug taking lecturers
that religion was the opiate of the masses,
at home my friends
were living the life that I really wanted.
In the next Part of this Series
we will continue our discussion
of the Eternal Spirit .
Christian Leadership College
After my experience of being prayed for in a Christian home group,
I went back to my life as per normal,
with zero understanding of what I had experienced.
I had an encounter that was beyond my comprehension,
and I simply added this to my eclectic spiritual collection.
I had no idea that this encounter with the Eternal Spirit
would be revolutionary,
and
was going to pursue me ,
and change the course of my life
in a radical way.
Would you like to encounter this spiritual being ,
this person the Eternal Spirit ,
the Holy Ghost ,
the Holy Spirit ?
I went back to studying
Sigmund Freud
and
Margaret Mead ,
as per normal.
As I had no understanding of my Christian spiritual experience,
I was still open to deception.
I continued being influenced by Freud's materialistic outlook,
and forgot about God for a few months at Uni.
During this time I found that some of what I was studying previously,
was now starting to depress me.
Nietzsche and Bertrand Russell
mysteriously didn't have the same appeal anymore.
I found myself becoming very angry about the content of my studies,
as I perceived that many of these authors
that I was forced to study at Uni were like
" blind men searching for a black cat in a dark cellar
that wasn't there ."
I became even angrier when I researched the private lives
of these philosophers and found nothing but
alcoholism , family neglect ,
suicide, drug addiction,
and despair.
My dialectical reasoning was leading me to the
inescapable conclusion that the majority
of the esteemed philosophers
were sprouting complete nonsense.
But I was in a quandary ,
because I was studying for existential purposes,
not just to pass the course.
I wanted truth ,
and wasn't prepared to be a parrot of the pc establishment,
just to pass my subjects.
As I did not know at this stage
what the answer was ,
I descended into a feeling of violent rage against this hypocrisy.
By now my friends that I was living with had all embraced Jesus Christ,
and their lives had been radically transformed,
but I refused to attend Church with them,
being under a deception as to what Church was really all about.
I would be smoking dope with some of my Uni friends,
and getting more and more angry and confused,
as I saw that most of them were desperately unhappy with their lives.
Then going home to where my Christian friends
were full of joy and enjoying their lives,
and above all else happy !
The tension that I experienced at this time
was tearing me apart,
as I could make no sense of this seeming contradiction.
At Uni I was being told by depressed drug taking lecturers
that religion was the opiate of the masses,
at home my friends
were living the life that I really wanted.
In the next Part of this Series
we will continue our discussion
of the Eternal Spirit .
Christian Leadership College
Copyright - Craig Holme - 2013 .
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