Matthew 18:10-14
Let’s continue to remember to pray for Jim and Marty – Debbie and Julie also!
“Notice what you notice.” So it is not the will of My Father Who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish. (v. 14) This verse (along with John 6:39) always speaks to me. The Father wants to lose NONE of His little children. My (step-)mother was killed in a car-train wreck, but my 19-year-old younger brother lived. He was not wearing a seat belt and ended up with two broken ribs, a punctured lung, and burns over 25% of his body. Within a week of that accident I was reading John 6:37-40 and was convinced that my mother was in Heaven but that my younger brother was not killed because he was not ready to go. Some twenty years later he did come to the Lord and remains with Him today. Our Father is patient with us. I am (mostly) convinced that He will not take us if we are not already His – until He knows that our heart is stone cold and would never turn.
A second item that touched me was “…their angels in heaven…” (v. 10). I’ve always believed in “guardian angels”. Maybe losing a mother at age 4 locked me into “all things heaven” at an early age. But I think having our own children solidified that belief. Carol and I had an awareness that we were limited in how well we could care for them and protect them and have always trusted in our Lord and His angels to watch over them. The end of that verse is particularly powerful: …their angels in heaven continually see the face of My Father who is in heaven. These guardian angels are in constant contact with our Father. What a blessed thought – a thought that is enormously mind-boggling, to imagine how it all comes together. Guardian angels with us 100% of the time, who are also before the Father’s face “continually”, and He Himself is watching over us 100% of the time. GLORY!!
Slava Bohu!