Most of us have very sentimental notions about angels in general, and especially our Guardian Angels. And yet the Bible depicts then as powerful, fierce, and almost warlike. They are holy and good, but their glory overwhelms. In Scripture, almost any time someone encounters an angel, the person becomes filled with fear and very disconcerted.
Further, while many of us think of the angels as here more to help us, God tells us to obey them.
[The Lord God says], See, I am sending an angel ahead of you to guard you along the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared. Pay attention to him and listen to what he says. Do not rebel against him; he will not forgive your rebellion, since my Name is in him. If you listen carefully to what he says and do all that I say, I will be an enemy to your enemies and will oppose those who oppose you. (Exodus 23:20-22).
So angels are to be revered and respected. They are not the prancing, doll-like figures we often imagine.
I do not write this to dash sentimental notions, only to add balance. Our angels love and serve us, but they do this with a divine authority that we ought not to trivialize.
Humorously, I thought of all this when I ran across this old commercial of linebacker Terry Tate who is brought into a business to “motivate” the workers to follow their better natures. Please take this in the humor I intend it. I am not saying that angels act in this manner. But what makes me laugh most is that I have often wondered if my own angel doesn’t sometimes need tactics like this in order to shape me up!
Enjoy the commercial, and remember your Guardian Angel and obey him!
If this happened to me I would be more wiser, cautious and a nervous wreck……THIS WALK AIN’T EASY!
That really was funny. Even to a dour person like me!
Monsignor, do you know from where you got that picture of the angel statue? I kind of like it.
Its a picture of a statue I own. The artist is Thomas Blackshear and the company is Ebony Visions. http://www.ebonyvisions.cc
I pray Saint Michael´s Rosary every morning about 6am on the way to the Copenhagen Cathedral for Mass at 8pm.
Laughed at the commercial, but could you please give me some information on the picture in this post (location, artist, whatever)? I would like to possibly incorporate the image in a class I am teaching this week.