Wednesday October 2, 2024 - Good News Ministries

Good News Reflections:
Making scripture meaningful to your daily life
by Terry Modica

How much help we receive from our angels depends upon our trust in God.

Good News Reflection for:

Memorial of the Guardian Angels
October 2, 2024

Today’s Prayer:

Lord, give me mindful eyes to discover Your greatness in the simplicity of what You have given us. Amen.

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Today’s Readings:

Job 38: 1, 12-21;40:3-5
Psalm 139:1-3, 7-10, 13-14
Matthew 18:1-5, 10
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Our angels show us how important we are to God

You are so important to God that he has assigned an angel to you, which you share with no one else, to help you throughout your life. This angel has been fulfilling its responsibilities to you all along, in ways that you can’t even imagine.

When you’ve needed more angels, God has given you more, especially if you asked him to send more. One of my routine morning prayers is: “Father God, surround me with holy angels who will help me to know and do Your will today. Surround me with so many holy angels that demons cannot even see me or hear me.”

Since angels are normally invisible to our eyes, and since we tend to use logic to explain away their interventions, we easily forget about them. In so doing, we underestimate how important we are to God. We worry and fret that he’s forgetting about us or that he’ll ignore our needs and that disaster will result. Thus, we feel like we’re on our own when actually we are not!

How much help we receive from our angels depends upon our trust in God. If we don’t really understand that we’re important enough to God for him to give us angels, we won’t understand their role in our lives. We won’t understand their desire to be involved with us.

What the disciples wanted to know in today’s Gospel reading is very familiar to our own thoughts: Are we good enough? Are we very important? We want to feel valued. We want to believe that we’re indispensable. But what does Jesus think of this?

He raised up the lowliness of little children as an example of what is truly important in the kingdom of God. Toddlers know they are valued when their parents tend to their needs. Do they worry about being indispensable? Only if a brother or sister takes up all of Mama and Daddy’s time. When they know they are loved, children know they are important.

We, on the other hand, work hard on feeling important. We expend a lot of effort to create an image of ourselves that’s better than what we think we are. This puts us into the mindset of trying to find our value in what we do instead of who we are.

We are God’s children; we were made in the image and likeness of our Daddy-God. As we can deduce from Matthew 18:10, the angels are here to help us be who we are.

God doesn’t give us guardian angels to help us develop great reputations, because we are already great to God. Only when we cooperate with this – letting the angels minister to the child of God that we truly are – only then can they guide us into doing great things for God. Only then can they guard us from the evil of whatever endangers his plans for us.

If we’re sincere in repenting from whatever it is that obscures who we really are, then when we look in the mirror we can see the face that our angels see. Try it. Look for the child of God in the mirror. If you’re not rejecting the good person that your Daddy-God sees when he looks at you, you will discover how very beautiful you are to him.

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