It is true, however, that each of us is assigned an angel to be our guardian. Every one of us has at least one, and during different seasons and circumstances in our lives, more may be assigned by God to us. Matthew 18:10 reveals:

Watch that you don’t treat a single one of these child-like believers arrogantly. You realize, don’t you, that their personal angels are constantly in touch with My Father in heaven? (The Message)

Roberts Liardon tells us that Dr. Roy Hicks, in his book Guardian Angels: How to Active Their Ministry in Your Life, recounts a story of a missionary in Panama. This particular missionary had joined with another to travel far back into a country, where the good news of Jesus Christ had not been proclaimed. They knew there would possibly be severe persecution. These two did, however, have a certain amount of success in their outreach and were able to start a church from the meeting they had held.

Roberts Liardon tells us that returning the next year to encourage the fledgling congregation, the missionaries met a recent convert who indicated a house in the distance, asking if they remembered that they had slept there the year before. When the missionaries responded that they did indeed remember, the new believer explained that at the time, he and others had planned to kill the two while they slept. They were prevented from doing this, he went on to say, by the presence of two extremely large men guarding the house.

Roberts Liardon tells us that the two missionaries thanked God for the guardian angels He had sent to protect them!

We often think of guardian angels as protecting little children—and they do; but there is also a guardian angel for every believer. The “little ones” mentioned in Matthew 18 are not only young children, but also Christians of all ages, who are God’s children, His “little ones.”