A boomerang letter timely delivered thanks to FaceBook.

Dear Friends and family, Judge for yourselves this boomerang letter.

This morning I barely made it through the night's agony.

Weak as I was, I managed to receive the Door Dash order that my Nathaniel ordered from McDonald's Big Breakfast. As I sat to have breakfast my habit of reading my Email took me to open a page from FaceBook where this letter written by me was ready to be read again after several years. Needless to say that not only the content of the letter but the timing of this boomerang letter has been an encouragement once again. I believe God to be in the timing.

I hope it is a blessing to you as it has been to me.

Gerry Gutierrez.

Gerry Gutierrez

February 28, 2019 ·

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You are not alone.

“ANGELS”

“The Angel of the Lord encamps near those who fear him and defends them.” If defense is necessary, there must be an eminent and present danger as reality. “We do not struggle against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers of the dark world.”

The day when faith becomes sight it will be the day when I will close my bank account of faith as I meet Jesus my banker.

As Spurgeon says, speaking about expectations:

“We shall die soon; and then our “expectation is from him.” Do we not expect that when we lie upon the bed of sickness he will send angels to carry us to his bosom? We believe that when the pulse is faint, and the heart heaves heavily, some angelic messenger shall stand and look with loving eyes upon us, and whisper, “Sister spirit, come away!” As we approach the heavenly gate, we expect to hear the welcome invitation, “Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.”

ATM stands for Automatic Teller Machine where a customer gets fast cash from his account. ATM for other means Ugly Teller Machine as opposed to the young beautiful girls at the bank. ATM to me has a new meaning, Angelical Transporter Messenger.

Who is this ATM?
I believe it to be the same angel who by divine orders has been encamping near those who fear God and defend. The guardian angels are the reason why we are still where we are or have arrived this far in life. Angels have been the most faithful unseen friends throughout our lives closer than our own shadow that depends on the Sun to be seen next to us.

Whatever your present situation might be, the one thing you must remember is that in this cold, lonely, dark, violent, dangerous and humongous universe you are not alone by the grace and love of God. “The angel of the Lord encamps near those who fear him and defends them.”

There is a popular saying in the Andes Mountains of Peru where I come from, when an elderly person observes a young child he usually says this as he blesses a child, “Este niño tiene ángel.” This means, “This little child has an angel.” It seems to be that some children in their view already show signs of having such angel and there are those who do not have such angels.

Our verse in question talks about “nearness” of angels on the basis of a discriminatory fact and that this is a promise only to those who fear God. Next to the covenant tend of a believer there is another tend where the angel of the Lord encamp invisible to the naked eye but visible enough to the eyes of faith.

“Believe in the Lord Jesus and you shall be saved, you and you household.” The covenant of God with Abraham was for him and his household. By faith that which was true for Abraham is true for us who believe in Jesus and fear God.

My possessive and consuming love for my children finds peace and rest in this great truth that my Covenant keeping God will be near my children just as he is near me and the occupants of my covenant tend.
Comfort yourself my beloved who in agony pray for your children and their future. God is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
God is the God of the living and not the God of the dead.

From the Covenant tend of my house to yours my dear neighbor, blessings. You are not alone. You are under care.

Gerry Gutierrez.