July 8
AN ANGEL ENCAMPMENT
"The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him,
and delivereth them." Ps. 34:7
We cannot see the angels, but it is enough that they can see us.
There is one great Angel of the Covenant, whom not having seen we
love, and His eye is always upon us both day and night. He has a host
of holy ones under Him, and He causes these to be watchers over His
saints and to guard them from all ill. If devils do us mischief,
shining ones do us service. Note that the Lord of angels does not come
and go, and pay us transient visits, but He and His armies encamp
around us. The headquarters of the army of salvation are where those
live whose trust is in the living God. This camp surrounds the
faithful, so that they cannot be attacked from any quarter unless the
adversary can break through the entrenchments of the Lord of angels.
We have a fixed protection, a permanent watch. Sentineled by the
messengers of God, we shall not be surprised by sudden assaults, nor
swallowed up by overwhelming forces. Deliverance is promised in this
verse -- deliverance by the great Captain of our salvation, and that
deliverance we shall obtain again and again until our warfare is
accomplished and we exchange the field of conflict for the home of
rest.