Bodyguards

A bodyguard is usually armed and works as a personal security officer who protects his client from such threats as assault, kidnapping, and stalking. His job includes planning routes for his ward. 

In this country, an armed bodyguard may also serve as a driver for his client. 

High-ranking government officials, wealthy businessmen and their children, and those who feel that their lives are in danger hire a bodyguard (or more, if necessary) to protect them. 

Ordinary people have bodyguards, too. But they are unseen and unpaid. They are grace from our loving and protective God. 

They are called angels, celestial beings who protect and guide human beings, and carry out tasks on behalf of the Lord. “. . . angels are only servants—spirits sent to care for people who will inherit salvation.” (Hebrews 1:14 NLT)

In the Old Testament, God said to the Israelites as they left Egypt for the Promised  Land,  “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.” (Exodus 23:20)

God’s host of angels praise and worship Him. They are described in detail in Revelation 4. We hear their voices in verse 8, “Day after day and night after night they keep on saying, ‘Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty—the one who always was, who is, and who is still to come.’”

Just as a mayor  or a millionaire has bodyguards, believers are blessed to have them as well—God’s heavenly protectors and ministers, armed with His anointing.  

“Don’t forget to show hospitality to strangers, for some who have done this have entertained angels without realizing it!” (Hebrews 13:2)