Earthly Angels

When we think about angels, we often think of our guardian angel or the angel Gabriel. And I sometimes reflect on the fact that even Jesus had angels at His disposal.

Matthew records, “Do you think I cannot call on my Father, and he will at once put at my disposal more than twelve legions of angels?” (Matthew 26:53, NIV).

When my husband and I traveled to Costa Rica, I had the blessing of experiencing heavenly and earthly angels interceding and working together to save my husband’s life when he suddenly went into respiratory distress. It became a test of our faith when none of the phones worked in the resort room, and we were unable to get an outside line to call 911.

As we sped along a single-lane road, we prayed not to crash en route to an emergency facility. Unfortunately, that facility only checked labs and sent us on an ambulance ride to a public hospital, where hardly anyone spoke English.

My husband was sent to the COVID-19 unit, where sick babies and adults were lined up on cots struggling to breathe. After staying through the night waiting for a change in shift, my daughter and I were kicked out of the waiting area.

We stayed outside while my husband was in the medical treatment area on a hard metal cart, waiting for treatment. My desperate prayer was, “Lord, please send someone who can speak on our behalf to get my husband some help.” Powerful prayers were going up from my husband, my children, my family, and my church family.

Finally, our earthly Costa Rican angel, Rebecca, greeted us.

She talked with the doctor and got us food and water.

Rebecca drove my daughter and me to a private hospital, where my husband received treatment and the oxygen was removed. God had dispatched His angels to navigate the speeding ambulance to get us safely to the right hospital.

Thank God for being the Great Physician! He sustained my husband and maintained the breath of life when he could not breathe for himself.

He sent his heavenly angel to protect us in a foreign country and His earthly angel to assist us when no one else would.

We all have opportunities to be a blessing to those in distress.

My question to you is, Whose earthly angel are you?

Rosalind Moore Dulan