Guardian Angel

What do you think of when I write the term "Guardian Angel" up there?

-A puffly, winged creature hovering between you and oncoming traffic?

-A stranger who shows up at the exact right time, with the exact right something, only to never be heard from again?

-A prayer card with the etymology of your name on it?

While the notion of guardian angels is certainly very comforting, there isn't much biblical support backing up the claim that we each have a particular angel vigilante hovering in our midst (though there are a few passages that might suggest it: Hebrews 1:14, Psalm 91:11). 

Angels are God's creation, we need not forget that we serve an omniscient God whose Spirit is everywhere (John 3:5-8).

Guardian angels or not, God is the one in whom our trust belongs. Let's not forget it.

2 minutes

Perusing the Internet can waste a lot of time and can yield few results--or it can cause me to find this computer-generated reenactment of the US Airways plane that crash-landed in the Hudson River last month.

Basically, this pilot took everything he ever learned, all his thousands of hours of flight training, his years of experience and PERFECTLY EXECUTED this landing, without losing any cool (or lives), in less than 2 minutes.

I believe that humans (and men in particular) dream about this day of perfect execution. We dream about the perfect moment of trial, adversity, and certain doom--and rising above it. Perfectly.

Don't shrink back. Be someone who steps up to the plate.

³⁸But my righteous one will live by faith. 
   And if he shrinks back, 
      I will not be pleased with him.³⁹But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who believe and are saved.

(Hebrews 10:38-39, NIV)