Dear Readers,
I’m glad you stopped by. My blog today is the fact that our lives with Christ can be so exciting that even “The Angels Are Watching” us!
There’s a fascination with angels, and rightly so. But the angels that some people revere, especially in books and movies, may be more feel-good stories designed to make us do just that, “feel good”, but may not be based on hard evidence?
Peter wrote about angels. You and I weren’t there during the time of Jesus and the time of Acts for actual angel sightings, so it may be difficult for us to comprehend it.
The writer in Acts 12:5-7 describes how an angel, while Peter was in prison, awakened Peter, made the chains fall off his wrists, and led Peter out of prison. So Peter was directly helped by an angel (see picture), which may have been the reason he wrote more about angels later.
I’m glad you stopped by. My blog today is the fact that our lives with Christ can be so exciting that even “The Angels Are Watching” us!
There’s a fascination with angels, and rightly so. But the angels that some people revere, especially in books and movies, may be more feel-good stories designed to make us do just that, “feel good”, but may not be based on hard evidence?
Peter wrote about angels. You and I weren’t there during the time of Jesus and the time of Acts for actual angel sightings, so it may be difficult for us to comprehend it.
The writer in Acts 12:5-7 describes how an angel, while Peter was in prison, awakened Peter, made the chains fall off his wrists, and led Peter out of prison. So Peter was directly helped by an angel (see picture), which may have been the reason he wrote more about angels later.
Peter talks in I Peter 1 about God’s “great mercy” by which we are “born again” because of what Jesus did for us on the cross, and that he “raised Jesus Christ from the dead”.
He goes on to talk about how “we now live with great expectation” and “we have a priceless inheritance”.
But wait, he goes on to talk about fact that we should “be truly glad”, and that there’s “wonderful joy ahead”, and that we “rejoice with inexpressible joy” due to the great “reward” in “the salvation of your souls”.
But Peter’s not done yet! He then talks about the “Good News” “announced to you by those who preached in the power of the Holy Spirit sent from heaven“.
Then here it is! Peter wrote in I Peter 1:12, “IT IS ALL SO WONDERFUL THAT EVEN THE ANGELS ARE EAGERLY WATCHING THESE THINGS HAPPEN.” (NLT)
So there you have it. When you or I feel down we can realize that angels are eagerly watching us in anticipation of what will happen next in our lives!
See you next time,
Arlen
He goes on to talk about how “we now live with great expectation” and “we have a priceless inheritance”.
But wait, he goes on to talk about fact that we should “be truly glad”, and that there’s “wonderful joy ahead”, and that we “rejoice with inexpressible joy” due to the great “reward” in “the salvation of your souls”.
But Peter’s not done yet! He then talks about the “Good News” “announced to you by those who preached in the power of the Holy Spirit sent from heaven“.
Then here it is! Peter wrote in I Peter 1:12, “IT IS ALL SO WONDERFUL THAT EVEN THE ANGELS ARE EAGERLY WATCHING THESE THINGS HAPPEN.” (NLT)
So there you have it. When you or I feel down we can realize that angels are eagerly watching us in anticipation of what will happen next in our lives!
See you next time,
Arlen
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