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Ministering Angels

"Are they [angels] not all ministering spirits sent out to serve for the sake of those who are to inherit salvation?" Hebrews 1.14.

Wow! Did you read that? Angels serve for your sake. Sent from the throne of God and Jesus, angels serve your interests. Let's try and wrap our heads around the implication of these things. The Creator God made the world for you to live in - as his own image and in his presence. Even though we messed that up, that same Creator God sent his Son into the world to reveal to us the Father; the Father's character and love for humankind. He did that for you. Then, after the ascension of the Son, the Father sent the Spirit - his own Spirit into our very beings to nudge, to witness, to correct us on our journey of transformation into the most perfect image of God - the likeness of Jesus. But even more fascinating still, the angels are sent from the throne of God for you.

The entire enterprise is focused - from God's perspective - on you. The world was created perfectly, as your home by the same loving Father who made you to live in it as his own image. The most perfect image came to show us the Father, whose images we are to be, and he has sent both his own Spirit into our hearts and the angels to minister to us as we travel the road of transformation most perfectly into his very likeness.

In short, the universe is orchestrated for your blessing and life with and in God as his image and as a partaker of the divine essence.

That my friends is mind-blowing.

But...it's true.

Have a great day!

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