WE have before us, in our picture today the faces of two little girls. They both have a sober, thoughtful expression, and I think it would be difficult to imagine what they are thinking about. But if we do not know what their thoughts are, we know that God is thinking with thoughts of love about the little folks such as our picture represents. He watches tenderly and carefully over them and sends His angels to minister to them, as well as to all who “shall be heirs of salvation.”
Angels are the ministers of God’s power; they “excel in strength.” Did you ever think of how great the power of an angel is, and how wonderful his strength? God once sent an angel against a mighty host that had encamped about the cities of Judah. Hezekiah, the king, was much frightened when this great army came into his kingdom, but he was one who feared God and knew His power, and he prayed to God, telling Him all about the matter. Let me tell you how God answered that prayer; He sent an angel in the night to the Assyrian army, and that angel slew in one night 185,000 men. Does not that speak of mighty power? Would you like to think that beings of such power are about you, guarding you and keeping watch over your steps? If you will turn to the ninety first Psalm and read it carefully you will see that God gives His angels charge over those who make the Lord their refuge, and such are kept in all their ways. Is not this most blessed?
You who love the Lord Jesus are perhaps preserved from dangers that you will not know about until in the presence of Jesus, all is told out. And perhaps you have been preserved when danger threatened, or if hurt, your injury has not been so severe as at the time it seemed as if it must be.
“The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear Him, and delivereth them.”
Ps. 30:7. Isn’t it beautiful.
I once read of a man who fell over a precipice in the great Alpine Mountains. His comrades thought he would certainly be dashed to pieces, but on reaching him by a circuitous route down the mountain side, they found him rejoicing in God who had granted him a marvelous deliverance.
Speaking of the little ones Jesus tells us “Their angels do always behold the face of My Father which is in heaven.”
Is it not happy to know that God sends such powerful and wonderful beings to protect and care for His own?
ML 12/09/1900