At the back of an AMTRAC train I was asked by a conductor How do I find God? Or a time I felt that I was to pray intently for someone to be healed. Other times, in my life, I have felt that I was urged to help someone in surreal moments. If angels aren’t human, then how could I have helped or why is my grandmother so present in my life? Perhaps the same has happened to you. Once again, I was at her side until the EMT’s showed up. A similar event happened on a street in NYC when I knew a young woman was going to collapse. When the EMT’s showed up, I silently went back to the bus and on my way. Then comforting him until EMT’s showed up. In my next moment, I was cradling his head in my arms telling people to call 911. Once in Orlando, while on a bus, I spotted a man in the distant crowd and knew he was going to fall. Was she my guardian angel?Īt other times in my life, I have felt that I was used to helping someone else. Waves of emotion will flow through me when these moments hit. Many times, I get feelings she is present. For instance, for most of my adult life, I have always felt that my deceased grandmother, Eleanor, was there in my best and worst times. It seems that angels are not human, but yet I have experienced humans acting as angels. When the seemingly impossible became real.Īs I researched angels, I became a little confused. As I look back on my own life, I can recount many times when an angel has helped my life. At some critical juncture, an angel has stepped in and helped turn disaster to victory. How does knowing this help our lives and help us understand how angels help us? My belief is that at some point in our lives we have all been aided or used by an angel. But it doesn’t mean Clarence wasn’t an angel, he was, through his three forms of angelic service to George Bailey. This concept has been a creation of art from the Renaissance. Nowhere in the Bible do we find that angels had wings or have to earn their wings. But he probably didn’t have wings or need wings. And he delivered an important message to George about his worth.
He also showed George that the world would be a lesser place without him, ministering to his broken soul. When George tried to commit suicide, Clarence intervened, protecting George. Finally, they are guardians or protectors.īack to Clarence, it seems that he was all three to George Bailey. They are messengers with instructions or advice. We now have three ways that angels help us. In this case, we find God uses angels to guard and protect us. On their hands, they will bear you up, lest you strike your foot against a stone. In Psalm -12, it says For He will command His angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways. In the book of Psalms, we find a third clue, angels as protectors. After His ordeal, angels came and ministered or attended to Jesus.
This verse is right after Jesus has spent forty grueling days in the desert and had been tempted three times by the devil. An example of this is found in Matthew, where it says Then the devil left him, and angels came and attended him.
In today’s verse from Hebrews, we get a second clue about another role of angels, that as ministers or helpers. Many times as a messenger, perhaps the most famous time was when an angel visited Mary to let her know she would bear a son named Jesus. In the entire Bible, the word angel appears three hundred times. The first is the word angel itself, in ancient Hebrew, it means messenger. Using this perspective we get three clues about angels. And when we use the Bible as the authentic source of information, we need to believe that the Bible is the word of God without error. To know about and determine what are angels, we should turn to the Bible. Clarence’s is portrayed as an angel is close, but not completely accurate. Well, this makes for a good subplot in a movie, but it isn’t quite accurate from a Biblical standpoint. In the movie, we are also told that every time we hear a bell ring, a junior angel has gotten their wings. In the movie, Clarence is portrayed as a junior angel trying to obtain his wings by helping George Bailey through some tough times. Probably the most famous angel we know of is Clarence, the bumbling angel in the movie, It’s a Wonderful Life. Angels the Messengers of God: Are They Real?Īre not all angels ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation?
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