Ministering Angels

Matthew 4:1-11

It is in the Wilderness that we experience God's ministering angels. That is the Good News for the day. Satan leaves us and the angels come. Usually those angels are other people,.

The Russian writer Dostoevsky tells about an experience he had as a boy. As a child, he loved to walk in the forest on his family's country estate. Often he searched for mushrooms in the forest. One day, he heard the most terrifying cry a child could hear in that part of Russia. It was the cry, "Wolf!" Hearing that cry Dostoevsky panicked and dashed for a clearing in the woods. His scamper drove him right into the arms of an old serf who worked for his father. The peasant quieted him and held him for a few moments. He soothed his tears and reassured the lad that he would guard him until he reached home.

Writing about this incident years later while in prison, Dostoyevsky remembered the gentle caress of this old peasant. As he reconstructed that experience her realized that in the kindness of that uneducated man he had experienced the comfort of a loving God. That is the way God most often comes to us;  through other people. They become God's ministering angels.

Indeed, that is the most beautiful ministry that God gives any of us ;to become a ministering angel. I have had angels minister to me. So have most of you. Usually, they are friends, fellow church members, people I already value.

Questions to Ponder

• Who have been your ministering angels?

• Have you been one at times?

• Would you like to be one in the future?

• God uses all kinds of people to be one?

In His Service,
Terry Phillips