Tuesday, 10/2/12
There are several Gospel scenes where the disciples clear
children out of the way. Rebuking them, Jesus said, “Suffer little children to
come to me.” And he said, “See that you despise none of them, because their angels in
heaven always look upon the face of God.”
That is in Matthew’s Gospel, and he mentions angels in
thirteen other places, but no where does he say each of us has his or her own
Guardian Angel. The Bible doesn’t set out to satisfy our curiosity about such
things. Many wonders are like presents we cannot open ahead of time As Paul
told the people in Corinth, “Eye has not seen, ear has not heard, nor has it
entered into the hearts of me the things God has planned for those who love
him.
Still, angels are not a myth. It is fine for people to love
them.. There is nothing wrong with praying, “O angel of God, my guardian dear,
to whom his love commits me here.” Or, if you have the voice for it, there is
nothing wrong with imitating Bing Crosby singing, “For you and I have an angel
on high with nothing to do, but to give to me, and to give to you love forever
true.”
The Bible tells us angels are real, and we might as well get
them on our side.
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