Be an Ambassador

2^nd Corinthians 5:18-21

¹⁸ And all of this is a gift from God, who brought us back to himself through Christ. And God has given us this task of reconciling people to him. ¹⁹ For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to him, no longer counting people’s sins against them. And he gave us this wonderful message of reconciliation. ²⁰ So we are Christ’s ambassadors; God is making his appeal through us. We speak for Christ when we plead, “Come back to God!” ²¹ For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin,^[e] so that we could be made right with God through Christ.

As I reflect on my journey with God I can see that I spent many years of my life wasting away opportunity. Lost Opportunities for myself to grow closer to God and just as importantly wasting the opportunity to be that ambassador for Him. The times when I would be with my friends in a bar talking to them about God as I drank Jack and Coke, or participating in Godless conversations over dinners. I see now that in these times I was not bringing them any opportunity to have reconciliation with Christ, more so I was taking them further and further away from Him. So much of it was for myself, to make me look good and sound good, like I had it all together. But the truth is that I did not even know why I called myself a Christian because I was not ministering to anyone.

I started a new life with God when I realized that I needed to have a relationship, a personal relationship with God. Only then did I begin to understand what it meant to be an ambassador for Him. No longer was my faith about me, and how well I was living it out at certain moments of my life. My conversations in life changed. I started to talk with my friends in different surroundings and in different ways. I spoke with conviction, no longer passively. God was starting to use me to make his appeal to the lost. In the Christian walk there are many ways to minister because there are many people who have such different and extraordinary gifts that speak to different areas of ministry, but the one ministry we all should have in common is the one where our goal is to reach the lost. That is why he sent His Son, so that none shall perish. We get to be a part of other people’s new beginning with Christ. There is nothing we should desire more, take more pride in, than being commissioned by God to lead others back to him.