Saturday, February 3, 2018
Matthew 18:10 Take heed that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you that in heaven their angels always see the face of My Father who is in heaven.
GOD'S ANGELS
Your guardian angel(s) has carried out many missions in your life, and so has mine. An elderly gentleman has been known to relate one such experience he had as a teenager. It seems that he and his younger brother had missed the morning school bus, so Dad let them use the family Plymouth to get to the local Lutheran high school. It was still dark on that rainy November morning when the angel got his assignment to intervene at the junction of the town road with the county trunk that would take them south into the city. Our young driver came to a full stop at the intersection, looked left and right, saw no headlights, shifted into first to cross the north-bound lane, intending then to hang a left to go south. At that moment the steering wheel was so forcibly torn from the driver's grip and the car was directed into such a very sharp left turn that they didn't get as far as the south-bound lane at all, but had been turned into the wrong lane (OH! NO!). Our young man, struggling with all his strength, was utterly unable to get that perverse steering wheel to straighten out . . . until - - WHOOSSHH - - a car traveling above the speed limit with no headlights and no horn of warning sizzled through the intersection on the south-bound lane and disappeared in the spray. "Did you see that guy coming?" "Nope." "Neither did I." What had prevented a horrendous collision right in the middle of that intersection? What saved the two boys plus whoever was in that speeding car? Just an angel taking control of the steering wheel for one or two seconds to leave a little passing space on the highway. They drove the rest of the way to school in awed silence, each realizing that the near miss had been no accident at all. They had learned first-hand something very wonderful about guardian angels. I know. I was there.
-- From the "Lutheran Spokesman"
