Tomorrow morning about 6:30, I’ll walk toward the car. With the key fob, I’ll unlock the doors. On cold winter days I can use that fob from inside the house to start the car so it’s warm when I get into it. This technology fascinates me. The fob doesn’t even have to be directly “in sight” of the car; its commands go around corners.
So I’ll get in and start a four-hour drive to Raymore, just outside of Kansas City, where our team is presenting the Gospel of Mark in the afternoon. As I’m driving, my “girlfriend” will give me directions. “Drive for x miles,” she’ll say. “In two miles, turn right at exit whatever.” “Destination on left.” The GPS is following me, and making my life safer and easier. Remember trying to look at the map while you were driving in a strange place?
I write this because today is the day of “St. Michael and All Angels.” Fobs and GPS teach us that there’s much more than meets the eye. Radio waves, X-rays, gamma rays, infrared, ultraviolet… All mysterious to me but make my life and yours better. So what’s the problem with believing in angels? “I believe in God, the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth” we confess in the Apostles’ Creed. The Creator made all things, visible to us and invisible to us. “By him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible” (Colossians 1:16).
Even more than fobs and GPS, the good angels help us. “Are they not all ministering spirits sent out to serve for the sake of those who are to inherit salvation?” (Hebrews 1:14). “He will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways” (Psalm 91:11). Thanks, “girlfriend” and thank you, Creator, for angels!
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