Angels Among Us

Scripture:
“For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways.” (Psalm 91:11)

Ever since I sang the song, “Angels Among Us” at the United Way karaoke event a couple of months ago, I have been thinking about the times in my life where something extraordinary happened that seemed to be too coincidental to be anything else except a direct intervention from God. Now I have not see anything with wings flying around anyplace but there have been times that I heard, in my head, soft voices that have caused me to act in a particular way that saved my life.

Like the red car I wrote about on November 19th. In fact, I have had more then just a couple of “near misses” either where I did not have an accident or I was in an accident where I did not get hurt. One time that really scared me happened when I was driving about 70 miles per hour plus on a small two lane “freeway” in Spain. There was only one other car on the road on right hand shoulder in front of me. I was moving along thinking that this car was stopped for some reason and all of a sudden the car turned LEFT, right in front of me. Yes, really. I swerved to the left to avoid him and ended up off the road in a corn field. I sat there scared to death realizing how close we just came to being killed and remember thinking how did I ever pull that off. Even the driver of the other car commented, trying to funny for the stupid think he did, that I must be an expert driver and I remember feeling, I did not just do that.

I also recently read a story on the Internet about a couple who were going on a vacation trip to the mountains and just before they left they realized their car horn did not work. The husband assured his wife that everything would be alright and that he would get it fixed when they returned. Well it so happened that while they were driving up the mountain all of a sudden the horn started blasting and would not stop. There was really no place to pull over because there was a cliff off to the right. Just then, right in front of them were two cars, one passing the other, coming down the hill.

To the glory of God there was no collision, but afterwards the other driver said had he not heard the horn blast, he would not have been able to turn back from passing in time. And the husband told his wife that he tried to turn the steering wheel but it would not turn the way he wanted it to. In fact, at one point he said he just let go of the steering wheel and he said the car was steering itself.

Why am I continuing this theme in today’s blog? I think we have all had some type of divine intervention in our lives. Sometimes it takes the form of a “coincidence” other times I don’t think we even realize that God has sent one of his angels to protect us. I am sure we have all thought to ourselves, “wow, if I had not been late leaving, it could have been me in that crash!” I want to encourage us to think about and try to remember, maybe even journal, these times so that we can thank God again and again for them.

Prayer:
Thank you Father for sending your angels to care for us even when we don’t know you have done it and help us to be more aware of what you are doing in our lives so we can thank you for those things too. Amen