God’s Secret Agents

God’s Secret Agents

For he will give his angels charge of you to guard you in all your ways.

Psalm 91:11 RSV

A secret agent is one who works to protect his country, his king, or his president against evil forces that are opposed to the one he serves. These days when we think of secret agents, the fictional character James Bond usually comes to mind. But God has His own secret agents—angels. The American Secret Service is charged with protecting the president of the United States. They usually do an excellent job, but even they will tell you they are not perfect, and someone who is fiercely determined to assassinate the president sooner or later will be successful.

God’s angels, however, never fail in their appointed tasks. We will never know how many potentially fatal accidents were avoided because God’s angels protected us.

Did you know that the Bible guarantees that every believer will be personally escorted into the presence of Christ by the holy angels? What would you do if you were about to meet the queen of England? You would make preparations so that you would be dressed properly and so that you would say the correct things.

So, too, should you be preparing to meet Christ, because no one knows the day or the hour when life will end and God’s angels, who have been protecting you, will then usher you into the presence of Christ.

Our Father and our God, I anticipate with joy the day when I can enter heaven’s gate and come into Your holy presence. And yet I tremble in awe at the very thought of being before You. Please send Your angels to prepare me, O Lord, to be with You. Thank You for providing Your angels, who will usher me into Your presence at the appointed time, through Jesus. Amen.