"Are not all angels ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation?" Hebrews 1:14 (NIV)
It has been said mothers couldn't be everywhere, so God gave us angels. Looking at my own life over the past 48 years, I can honestly say I am thankful for the angels God has put in charge of guarding my family and me. I'm amazed at how many "close calls" I've seen, and yet continue to thrive, in spite of difficulties. There are so many times no family member, only God and His angels could have saved us. Our whole family at one time, or another have been close enough to taste death. All of which have turned out to be brushes with death, instead of an early physical death.
On a cold rainy day in Louisiana, I was determined to go to the grocery store. For three days I had tried to go, but couldn't seem to find the time, because so many little things kept popping up. Our cupboard looked like Old Mother Hubbard's, almost bare. When Mark came home from work, he wanted to ride along. We were less than ten miles from home, going around a windy curve, when the car hydroplaned. Just before the car flew off the side of an embankment, Mark said, "Kathy we're gonna die today."
Almost emotionless, I shook my head yes and said, "I love you." Right after that we began hitting trees and flew over the bank going about fifty-five miles an hour. The front end nose dived and hit a huge tree. As the car flung around, I remember my body flying up, and my head slammed the roof. I was knocked unconscious before I flew out the right rear window.
I woke up, hanging by my legs, out the passenger side back window. I heard lots of sirens, and people screaming. Some lady from an ambulance ran down the hill. She lifted my legs out of the car. She laid me on a back board, tied me down, and set me over to the side. As I looked up at the car from the ground, the radiator was steaming. The car was knocked in on all three sides. The door that I came out of was folded in like a "V."
I began yelling, "Is my husband dead?" A man came over to where I was laying. He said, "Your husband is fine. He has a sore leg, but it's not broken."
We just need to take you both to the hospital. As the paramedics carried me up the hill on the back board, the lady paramedic looked down and said, "Lady, you scare the $**# out of me. The way you flew out of that window you should be dead. There's no way you should be alive from that impact. Your head should have been cut off as you flew out. God must have something special for you to do!"
(A few weeks before that accident we had put a window tint on all the windows. As my head crashed through the window, it shattered and popped the glass out. I only suffered a sprung neck and had to have the glass splinters dug out at the hospital. Except for some bad bruises, a concussion and totalling the car we were fine. :) )
On the way to the hospital I said, "Did you ever hear that story about Shadrach, Meshack, and Abednego?" Their God and my God are one in the same!
She just smiled and said, "Yeah, I know."
Obviously, I wasn't wearing my seat belt that day. I wouldn't advise anyone to be as foolish as that. In fact it's a sin not to obey the laws of the land, unless they go against God's will.He has angels watching over all of us. As a parent we can completely trust our children to the God who gave them to us. Jesus intercedes for us daily.
One day, my time on earth will end. At that point Nothing Here will stop me from going Home. Just remember this, because I am saved through the blood of Jesus Christ, when I am absent from my body, I am present with my Lord. :)
"Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might destroy him who holds the power of death-that is the devil-and free all those who all their lives were held in slavery by there fear of death.
For surely it is not angels he helps, but Abraham's descendants. For this reason he had to be made like his brothers in every way, in order that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, and that he might make atonement for the sins of the people. Because he himself suffered when tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted." Hebrews 2:14-18 (NIV)
We have an awesome God, who cares for us in every way, mentally, physically and spiritually! Please live life to the fullest. Do not fear an earthly death if you are in Christ Jesus.
"....Today if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts."
Hebrews 4:7 (NIV)
It's so important to Listen, Believe and Act.
"for anyone who enters God's rest also rests in his own work, just as God did from his." Hebrews 4:10 (NIV)
