We have read on the internet or television evening news, that an Ambassador has been asked to leave a country, because of the behavior of his country, family or personal life and comments.
We would be proud and look forward to be appointed, chosen or voted to become an Ambassador. The danger of being an Ambassador comes into play, such as Benghazi, or Afghanistan.
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Followers of Christ have heard Jesus call, as the disciples in the New Testament, as He says: "Follow Me." We do, and drop our nets to follow, trusting His work on the cross, as our only hope to spend eternity with God. Receiving forgiveness and covering of sin and receiving the Spirit of God becoming Born again spiritually!
As believers and followers of Christ immediately we are citizens of "Another country." We are very much in this world but not of it. We are viewed that way as well, by this world because our conversation, lifestyle, home is new and different.
Christ from His Authority, has commissioned us to go into these communities as His Ambassadors and actually building His "Kingdom." He appoints us to be great representatives and letting people see your good deeds so that He might receive the glory. This is not the seeking of world domination as a world religion, but guiding to a personal relationship with God, in Christ!
Paul writes to the Philippians Church and us; "Do all things without complaining and disputing, that you may become blameless, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among who you shine as lights in the world, holding fast the word of life..."
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In 2 Corinthians: "Therefore from now on, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet we know him thus no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things are passed away; behold, all things have become new. Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation. Now then we are Ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us; we implore you on Christ's behalf, to be reconciled with God. For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him."
Sometimes I question so much things that I have encountered.
ReplyDeleteI'm praying with you. Many things we don't understand. You are not alone even people in the Bible (David) sometimes questioned. He may just leading you to the still waters. Easier said than done; to walk by faith and not sight.
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