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We shall Meet Our Guardian Angels, November 2
He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.
Psalm 91:11
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Not until the providences of God are seen in the light of eternity shall
we understand what we owe to the care and interposition of His angels.
Celestial beings have taken an active part in the affairs of men. They have
appeared in garments that shone as the lightning; they have come as men,
in the garb of wayfarers. They have accepted the hospitalities of human
homes; they acted as guides to benighted travelers. They have thwarted the
spoiler’s purpose and turned aside the stroke of the destroyer.
Though the rulers of this world know it not, yet often in their councils
angels have been spokesmen. Human eyes have looked upon them. Human
ears have listened to their appeals. In the council hall and the court of
justice, heavenly messengers have pleaded the cause of the persecuted and
oppressed. They have defeated purposes and arrested evils that would have
brought wrong and suffering to God’s children. To the students in the
heavenly school, all this will be unfolded.
Every redeemed one will understand the ministry of angels in his own
life. The angel who was his guardian from his earliest moment; the angel
who watched his steps, and covered his head in the day of peril; the angel
who was with him in the valley of the shadow of death, who marked his
resting place, who was the first to greet him in the resurrection morning—
what will it be to hold converse with him, and to learn the history of divine
interposition in the individual life, of heavenly co-operation in every work
for humanity!
With the word of God in his hands, every human being, wherever his
lot in life may be cast, may have such companionship as he shall choose.
In its pages he may hold converse with the noblest and best of the human
race, and may listen to the voice of the Eternal as He speaks with men. As
he studies and meditates upon the themes into which “the angels desire to
look” (
1 Peter 1:12
), he may have their companionship.
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