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Have you been touched by an angel?

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  • Originally published July 25, 2008 at 5:19 p.m., updated July 25, 2008 at 5:19 p.m.

The study of angels throughout the Bible is fascinating. They are God’s messengers, comforters, helpers, rescuers, guides, teachers and protectors. The entire subject is too broad to handle in this short article, but I do wish to call attention to the idea, as we believe, that angels are still ministering to people today, although we don’t always recognize them or give them credit.

Marcus Bach, in his book, “Make it an Adventure,” relates the story of a man he met who was blinded at the age of 16 in an accident and had subsequently been provided with a guide dog. The dog was the light of his life and was with him through college.

Some time after graduation he was walking on a New York street when he heard the screech of brakes and the leash was torn out of his hands. After searching frantically about, he discovered his dog dead at his feet.

A policeman questioned him, but he hardly knew what he was saying. Then he heard someone whisper to him, “Come, I will take you home.”

Dazed and confused, he took the dog in his arms and let the stranger take him to his apartment. At the apartment the stranger asked if they might pray together. “I never heard a prayer so full of power. He was so confident about the presence of God that even when he prayed for the return of my sight, I believed him.”

After a fitful night of sleep, the man awoke to see light streaming through the window. Running across the hall to another apartment he cried out, “I can see! I can see!”

Later he went to the police station to file the report. The officer called several members of his staff; they wanted everything in great detail. Then the policeman said, “There is just one thing wrong with your story. No one took you home. You insisted on going to your apartment by yourself and we watched you go. There was no stranger.”

On a personal note. I was at my sister’s bedside when she died. As I stepped out into the hall while the doctor finished his duties, a nurse came up to me, hugged me and spoke a few words of consolation.

Later, wanting to thank the nurse, I described her to the person at the nurse’s station. She told me of the nurses on duty and said there was no nurse who fit the description I gave.

Have you ever been touched by an angel? Some of you may have had such an experience but couldn’t bring yourself to consider it was a spiritual moment.

Norman Douglas has said, “How hard it is sometimes to trust the evidence of one’s senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.”

It is also possible you may encounter an angel in everyday affairs. Hebrews 13:2 says, “Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.”

Raymond F. Smith is a deacon at Fellowship Bible Church in Victoria and President of Strong Families of Victoria



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