We were just at Spring Canyon, the conference center near Buena Vista, Colorado, owned by Officers’ Christian Fellowship. Our room had a picture of a guardian angel. Not this one! Feminine, gentle…

The one in our room looked like this:

I like the image of a warrior standing guard! That’s what a guardian angel would do.

See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven. (Matthew 18.10, ESV)

Angels are mighty beings. Ever wonder why the first words spoken by an angel when encountering people are, “Fear not!”

There is spiritual warfare, and angels are part of it.

Then Jesus said to him, “Put your sword back into its place. For all who take the sword will perish by the sword. Do you think that I cannot appeal to my Father, and he will at once send me more than twelve legions of angels? (Matthew 26.52, 53, ESV)

I lifted up my eyes and looked, and behold, a man clothed in linen, with a belt of fine gold from Uphaz around his waist. His body was like beryl, his face like the appearance of lightning, his eyes like flaming torches, his arms and legs like the gleam of burnished bronze, and the sound of his words like the sound of a multitude…Then he said to me, “Fear not, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart to understand and humbled yourself before your God, your words have been heard, and I have come because of your words. The prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me twenty-one days, but Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, for I was left there with the kings of Persia… (Daniel 10.5, 6, 12, 13, ESV)

For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. (Ephesians 6.12, ESV)