This is a lengthy quote, but a most important one. I believe this was what Jesus was trying to explain to the Pharisees by His life and actions, but like us, we have missed it.  

 "It is a remarkable saying of Jesus that, "The Father loves the Son and has given all things into His hand." What is the idea of these words? It is the conception of a transference of the reins of Divine government. 

I think that at this time Jesus said to Himself: until now in the faith of Israel, the Father has given the charge of man to the angels. The time has come for a change of thought. From this point on man shall have the charge of man. 

The government of my Father has always been a vicarious government; but up till now it has devolved upon the angelic throng. Let it now devolve on the human. 

Why should an angel be the best help for the earth-born soul! Has he taken the seed of Abraham? Does he know the frailty of man's frame? Has his training in the school of sorrow been such as to make him a fitting guardian of the weak? Is not man the fitting guardian of man? My Father desires to transfer the government. He calls upon the sons of men to lift those burdens of humanity which to the eyes of the past generation were laid upon the arms of the cherubim'

Such I understand to be the real bearing of the apostolic call. It is the formation of a human brotherhood to take, in relation to man, the place of angels. Up to this time the beings outside of humanity had been looked upon as the sole ministers to man. To be fed by mysterious agencies was to be fed providentially. 

It seemed more reverent to believe that Elijah was ministered to by the ravens than to be ministered to by Arabians. It was really less reverent.

Intelligent ministration is the most providential ministration. The ravens and the angels are both removed from man. They are so from opposite reasons; the ravens are too far below, the angels too far above. Perfect ministration is founded upon a kindred experience. Such can only be found within the circle of the human. 

Jesus woke the world into that consciousness. He proclaimed that if ministration was to be complete, man must be the angel to man.

That is the thought at the root of what is called the Christian ministry. It is the idea that sympathy with human weakness demands participation in that weakness. In the strength of that conviction Jesus formed the league of pity - a human league, a brotherhood of man with man for the support of man. He initiated a movement in the heart of humanity which, though in its origin was no bigger than the eddies of the pool of Bethesda, was destined in the fullness of time to become a very ocean of love.

 Oh God, let me be the apostle of the week and weary. Send not the cherubim and the seraphim; send not the angel and the archangel. These have no drooping wing; they are never tired in their flight; they cannot sympathize with faintness. But I have borne the burden of the day; I have been tried in the furnace of pain. I have trod the dusty plain, I have descended the deep valley, I have climbed the arduous steep. I know the path of the weary, I can guide where the celestials never go; make me a helper in Thy ministrant band." Matheson.