June 8, Angels Unawares

Have you had experiences that you could not explain in human terms? Could there have been angels present?

“Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.” (Hebrews 13:2)

Paul Elliott told me about his grandfather, Rev. Dr. William Marion Elliott, Sr., who on at least two occasions in Colorado City, Texas, awakened in the middle of the night and said to his grandmother, “I have the feeling someone downtown needs me.” He went to the intersection to which he felt called and witnessed to the drunks he found in the gutters there.

Paul said:
My dad was westbound in Eastland, Texas, which is west of Fort Worth. There was only one traffic signal light in town. He pulled up and stopped. The signal light was red and he stopped. When his engine died, he jumped out to push it through the intersection. Since there was angle parking, he started to push. All at once it was easy to push. There was another man pushing and smiling at him. He hopped into the driver’s side to angle it into the parking place.

Then he hopped out to thank the man. There was not another soul on the street. The man had not had time to go into one of the buildings on the other side of the street. There were no other cars anywhere around. It was his opinion that the man was an angel. From the time he had hopped into his seat, parked, and gotten out to thank the man, there was no way the mysterious person could have entered any building across the street or walked in any direction to have disappeared.

(This is one of the stories in the June 8 devotional of DO YOU KNOW HOW GOD LOVES YOU?)

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