God's Angels Help God's People

Psalm 91:11 promises, “For (the Lord) will command his angels concerning you,  to guard you in all your ways.”

Billy Graham, in his book Angels: God’s Special Agents, tells this story:  The British express train raced through the night, its powerful headlight piercing the way.  Queen Victoria was a passenger on the train.

Suddenly the engineer saw a startling sight.  Revealed in the beam of the engine’s light was a strange figure in a black coat standing in the middle of the tracks and waving its arms.  The engineer grabbed for the brake and brought the train to a grinding halt.

He and his fellow trainmen clambered down to see what had stopped them.  But they could find no trace of the strange figure.  On a hunch the engineer walked a few yards further up the tracks.  Suddenly he stopped and stared into the fog in horror.  The bridge had been washed out in the middle and ahead of them it had toppled into a swollen stream.  If the engineer had not heeded the ghostly figure, his train would have plummeted down into the stream.

While the bridge and the tracks were being repaired, the crew made a more extensive search for the strange flagman.  But not until they got to London did they solve the mystery.

At the base of the engine’s headlamp the engineer discovered a huge dead moth.  He looked at it a moment, then on impulse wet its wings and pasted it to the glass of the lamp.  Climbing back into his cab, he switched on the light and saw the “flagman” in the beam.  He knew the answer now: the moth had flown into the beam, seconds before the train was due to reach the washed-out bridge.  In the fog, it appeared to be a phantom figure, waving its arms.

When Queen Victoria was told of the strange happening she said, “I’m sure it was no accident.  It was God’s way of protecting us.”

Graham concludes: No, the figure the engineer saw in the headlight’s beam was not an angel… and yet God, quite possibly through the ministry of His unseen angels, had placed the moth on the headlight lens exactly when and where it was needed.

God's angels help God's people.  Maybe God will send an angel into your life this week!