An Ambassador is a person who is officially representing a person, their country, or even a company to another country or group of people. They promote the person or country they are representing, and they are expected to do it in a positive way. You could say they are the middleman in a relationship. They are authorized by the authorities that they represent. They must know who or what they represent very well. In II Corinthians 5:20, Paul teaches us that we are ambassadors for Christ. The King has appointed us to represent Him to a world that is void of understanding who He is, and without us being His ambassadors, most will never know how to escape Hell. We are the middlemen to reveal the way to be reconciled to Him.
II Corinthians 5:20 “Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God.”
As an ambassador, we have a responsibility that supersedes any other responsibilities that we have. We must live for the King in a manner that pleases Him. Our lives are to be Christ-centered. Everything we do is to bring glory and honor to Him. In I Corinthians 10:31, Paul teaches us that “whether we eat or drink or whatsoever we do we are to do it to the glory of God.” The opposite of glory and honor is shame and disgrace. Our actions and thoughts will fall on one side or the other of these attributes. There is no middle ground. We have been taught by silent example to segment our lives into chunks of time or rooms, and one does not overflow into the other. Our day is spent giving 8 to 10 hours a day to our work, a few hours to gather the kids and engage in some form of recreation with them, a meal, homework, showers, and then to bed. We expect to sleep 6-8 hours and start all over again. When the weekend comes, we use Saturdays to have fun, catch up on chores, and then find that much-needed relaxation that we deserve. Sundays we know are for the Lord, so out of habit we again go through a script of what we usually do. None of these things is bad, except for the mindset we have in doing them. If we apply I Corinthians 10:31 as the bible teaches everything we do must keep Him in mind and it all becomes a service to Him. Everywhere we go, we are looking for people whom we can be an ambassador to.
II Corinthians 5:21 “For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.”
An ambassador is a trusted person by the one they represent. As an ambassador for Christ, I am trusted to take the gospel to those that God has placed in my path. This is the main reason God left us here after we are saved. Heaven would be so much better, and as far as our loved ones and family, He is perfectly capable of taking care of them. However, just as He left the disciples here to carry the gospel, we too have been commissioned. We are to teach by example and by the written word. We are the hands and feet of Jesus as ambassadors for Him. These two verses in Matthew 28:19-20 are our commands also “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.
We have been chosen by God as an official representative of Heaven. When we accept Christ as our Savior, we become citizens of Heaven. He told the disciples He was going to prepare a place for them and He would come again to take them to their final home. An ambassador of the United States goes to another country to represent the U.S. In Ephesians 2:19, we are “we are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God.” We are a diplomat representing our final home, Heaven, to a foreign land. As we grow closer to God, this world will become stranger to us.
Joh 14:2-3 “In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.”
We are to speak boldly for God as taught in Ephesians 6:20. “For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.” We take His message of love in John 3:16 “ For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. We bring to a lost world, who is the enemy of God, reconciliation that is done through Jesus His Son. II Corinthians 5:18 “And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation.”
Paul goes on in II Corinthians 5:19-21 to say that we are to implore them to become Christians. Just like God beseeched us, meaning He begged us to accept His Son, and so we could be reconciled to Him. As ambassadors, we must pull out all stops to let others know who God is and what He has done for them.
II Corinthians 5:19-21 “To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God. For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God.”
The greatest job in the world is to be an ambassador for God. We have the opportunity to bring hope, peace, love, joy, grace, mercy, and eternal life that is perfect. There are no other ambassadors, no matter who they represent, that has the privilege to do so great a task. Embrace it, thank God for it, and get busy fulfilling it
