2/5/2017 1 Comment Guardian Angels![]() I know my children see and interact with angels. I know and believe the Bible when it talks about the angelic and even how we each have angels assigned to us, including some for specific tasks, some for seasons etc. But despite this I was taken aback when our 6 year-old daughter came last week and asked me what the name of my guardian angel was! Of course, it was a perfectly reasonable question. Her angel has a name, her brother’s angel has a name, the Bible gives names to the angels. It was not an outrageous question. But it stopped me in my tracks. Naturally I knew I too had a guardian angel, but it suddenly hit me that in the last 43 years I had never thought to discover her name! Now, names are very important to me. Names carry meaning and destiny, as well as giving identity and purpose. When I lived in England I volunteered at an outdoor activity centre at the weekends and I would ask each person in every group to tell me their name before we started so that I could use their name when I was speaking with them. I believe it is important to make an effort to remember names and it makes people feel more valued and important. So, it would stand to reason that I’d have known the name of my angel. But I didn’t! And, I also knew I had some repenting to do. I have to admit that I have not been in the habit of interacting with the angelic much. Although I know that they work on our behalf for example, I have not actually acknowledged, in appreciation, the role they play in my life. When I found a quiet time with God later that evening I humbled myself before Him and His angels. I also enquired for the name of my angel. I was interested in the response because I then realised I had had more to do with her (my angel appears to me in female form) than I had thought. In particular she had appeared in many of my dreams. Her name was also significant because it shed some light on who I am and some of what she helps me do. And so, in the hope that this will draw you too into a deeper relationship with God and His angels I ask you the same question that set me on this track, “What is the name of your guardian angel?” 1/30/2017 0 Comments Out of Time?![]() Despite the fact Timothy declares that I turn into a pumpkin at 11 o’clock at night, I had the joy of spending the last night of 2016 with some good friends. Our children were enjoying a new-year-sleepover with their Grandparents so I was gifted with almost the same number of hours sleep as I would normally have, and they were good hours of rest! However, the next day I still felt as though I had stayed up all night and so asked God what was going on. He used this experience to teach me more about His timing. God’s timing works in cycles. On the fourth day of creation He set the sun, moon and stars in the sky to order the times and the seasons (Gen 1:14-19). These each follow a set cycle and we use these to determine our cycles of time: days, weeks, years etc. When we move in the timing of God and follow His cycles we find that we are in rhythm with Him. If we don’t then our rhythms don’t match - just like trying to match the rhythm of a waltz to the rhythm of a marching band: although they may occasionally have common beats, they are mostly out of sync. My body had the right quantity of sleep, and the quality was good, but those hours of sleep occurred out of the normal cycle of time for my body, consequently I did not feel rested. I had disrupted the rhythm of my interaction with sleep This is what happens when we move outside of God’s timing. We may do the things God has asked of us, but when they take place outside of His cycles of time they do not achieve the intended result. This can leave us disappointed, frustrated or even create big problems for us. Of course, there is a remedy for this! In my case I needed to realign my sleep patterns and I was soon back into the rhythm. This is good news, not only because I don’t want to always look like a pumpkin, but because whenever we find ourselves operating out of God’s timing, we simply need to stop, take time to discover God’s cycle and rhythm for our lives, and move into it. When our clock ticks with the same rhythm as God’s then we know we have realigned ourselves with His timing. |
AuthorTimothy Pond, author of "The Call of Daniel - The Awakening of a Prophet," lives in an old heritage home by the ocean in Saint John, New Brunswick with his wife and five children. ArchivesCategories |