God’s ambassadors

Back in May, I looked at the passage below from the viewpoint of reconciliation. Now we’ll look at it from the perspective of what we’ve become because of reconciliation.

2 Corinthians 5:17-21 (NIV) Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

We are His ambassadors – representatives of His Kingdom. What does this mean?

- The world we live in is not our home any more. We’re now here on assignment from the King.
- We can ask the King for resources to live in the world we’re in now.
- We can make requests on behalf of others, and introduce them to our King.
- The King will defend us.
- When our King wants to bless people outside of the Kingdom, He will typically do so through His ambassadors – us.
- When we speak and act, we should always do so with remembrance of Who we represent.

Doug