Our strongest allies in our spiritual warfare

By Fr. Roy Cimagala

THESE are the angels, of course. Each one of us is assigned a guardian angel which is one way God makes himself present in us and continually helping us. Let us remember that in this life of ours on earth, we actually are engaged in battle not only against our natural and infranatural enemies, but also enemies with supernatural powers. We are always in a spiritual and supernatural warfare.

St. Paul once affirmed this fact of life when he said: “Our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.” (Eph 6,12)

That we are continually hounded by these powerful spiritual and supernatural enemies can be verified when we find ourselves in helpless situations where we are completely at a loss as to how to deal with our persistent defects and predicaments. No matter what we do to overcome them, they continue to remain and bother us.

It’s important that we realize that we have angels who can deal with these unsolvable problems properly. We need to develop a deep devotion to our guardian angels. It’s actually a very helpful one in our daily affairs, since our guardian angels are our direct link to God. They see and attend to God face to face, and serve as his agents and messengers to us. They can give us a lot of help.

Even in our material needs, we can ask them to facilitate things. It may just be a matter of looking for a parking space in a crowded place, or of asking for safety and security when we travel. We should not hesitate to ask them for help. It’s their pleasure to be of help.

But our guardian angels are even more helpful to us as in our task of navigating the most tricky spiritual and supernatural realities. When there are strong temptations, or when some unknown evil spirits seem to bother us, or when we are undertaking a spiritual and supernatural project like coming up with an apostolic initiative, our guardian angels make themselves available to help us in any way.

Moreover, it is said that our final state of life in heaven will be like that of angels, where our bodily condition will be fully integrated to the spirit. Again, many saints have attested to the veracity of this phenomenon.

We should try our best to have a closer relationship with our guardian angels. We can give them a name, and call them for any need we have. We should also greet the guardian angels of the persons we meet everywhere, so our dealings with them would be facilitated.

We have to spread this devotion more widely, and enable many people to avail of the many precious services our guardian angels give us. Things will be a lot different, will be a lot better, to be sure, when this devotion is lived.

With this devotion, we become constantly aware of their guidance to us, edifying and inspiring us. Our minds and hearts will be filled with many good things that are proper to us, preventing us from falling into self-indulgent thoughts and desires. We would be encouraged to give ourselves to others, to fight with more vigor against temptations. We would be taught how to see things through the eyes of God.

With them, we get intimately united with God who in the end provides us with all the help we need to deal with our humanly insolvable problems and challenges in life.

Email: roycimagala@gmail.com