Greetings to you…loved, chosen, redeemed, sanctified…by the beautiful, powerful, and wonderful name of Jesus Christ! What a beautiful summer morning in the Kingdom. This must be the day that the Lord has made, so we will rejoice and be glad in it! I trust that you have had a good week and experienced God’s presence surrounding you. This morning I will be praying for you, asking Father to release that which your heart is desiring – health or restoration or refreshment or direction or _____________ …may God use you for His glory to touch other lives…may you follow His footsteps.
As much as I appreciate the blessings God sends my way, I have an understanding that they come with responsibilities. I think that is true with all of us. I am not to be selfish with them nor hide them away or ignore them. I read in Scripture that…We are ambassadors for Christ – 2 Corinthians 5:20. I like that word – “ambassador” and there is a good job description…Put on then, as God’s chosen ones (ambassadors), holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. – Colossians 3:12-14.
An ambassador’s identity is found in representing the authority, in days gone by – the king who sent him in a way that reflects the character and desires of that king. An ambassador is to be the visible presence of the invisible authority that sent him/her. I appreciate a paragraph from my morning devotion: This means that Jesus makes his invisible presence visible through his people, who represent him in one another’s lives. You are the look on Christ’s face. You are the tone of his voice. You are the touch of his hands. You are the physical representative of his grace. This is your mission in every relationship of your life–to make the grace of the invisible King visible. – Paul David Tripp, New Morning Mercies.
As “ambassadors” we are to live out the job description in the place that we have been positioned in, with the blessings that come our way, so that family and friends and yet-to-be-friends will see the King.
Something to think about…be blessed!