Weekly Devotion - #39

Read: Psalm 91:1-16

Touched by an Angel?

"...For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways" (Psalm 91:11). Does God use angels to protect and prevent things from happening to His people? Some children require many angels.

In our travels we were visiting churches on the West Coast. We were excited about visiting with Pastor David Jeremiah in San Diego since we listened to his radio broadcast, "Turning Point." I want to share with you a strange and unusual story that he told.

On Mother's Day a man decided to take his two children to visit their mother where she worked. He dropped off some Mother's Day presents, made his visit and then returned to the car with the two children. The car was parked in an indoor garage where it was dark. He gently set the infant seat and three-month-old son on the sun roof of the car and turned his attention to seating his other child, a girl, who was close to two-years old. Without thinking further, he slid into the driver's seat and drove off, forgetting that his baby son was still on the roof of the car.

Moving slowly from the garage into the street he drove through a busy city toward the Interstate. Despite heavy traffic, nobody beeped or waved to warn him about the baby on top of the car. Pulling onto the expressway he accelerated to 50 mph and then he heard it, a scraping on the roof of the car as the infant car seat with his son started to slide. He said, "I looked where the boy should have been, and then in my rear view mirror I saw him sliding down the highway in his infant seat. That's where he landed. In the middle of the road, in the path of oncoming traffic..."

The car seat flew off the roof, hit the road and was sliding down the highway almost as fast as the cars coming toward it. A man following the car witnessed the event. He saw something in the air and thought someone had thrown garbage out a window. Then he saw it and thought it was a doll in a seat. The doll opened its mouth and he realized it was a little baby. It landed on the road and bounced but it never tipped over. The man slammed on his brakes and turned his car around in the road so that no other cars could go by. He jumped from his car, ran and picked up the uninjured baby. He took him to the scared and thankful father. Yes, God protects with the touch of an angel. [TGC]

THOT: God gives us His best, even though we do not deserve it.

TODAY: Thank the Lord for helping you when you did not know He was there!

This lesson is from  30 Heart Touching Devotions available from SWM.

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