God’s Diplomats: The Appointment

Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ’s behalf, be reconciled to God.

2 Corinthians 5:20 (NKJV)

Few Verses move me more than today’s Verse:

  • That the Almighty God would PLEAD through us,

  • That He lowered Himself to our level,

  • That He loves sinful, selfish little us…

  • Enough to send His Son to die for us,

  • Enough to plead for us to love Him back,

  • Enough to make us His ambassadors,

YOU, actors, models, and talent for Christ… continue to plead where Jesus left off: searching for poor, lost, and hard-pressed people, in the hope of reconciliation!

To wrap up God’s desire in children’s terms: It’s a happily-ever-after end! He ‘Wants all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth’ (1 Timothy 2:4).

For you to know your job in His great plan, please consider these key definitions:

  • Ambassador: ‘A minister of the highest rank sent to a foreign court to represent his sovereign or country; An official messenger and representative’ (Webster Dictionary)

  • Reconciliation:

  1. ‘An end to a disagreement or conflict with somebody and the start of a good relationship again’ (Oxford Dictionary).

  2. ‘The end of the estrangement, caused by original sin, between God and humanity’ (Biblical definition).

Your duty as ambassadors for Christ is to help restore earth’s people to God!

God’s Diplomats: The Appointment (Part 1)

* ‘These are wonderful and bold words, not so much because of what they claim for the servants as because of what they reveal of the Lord… Love upon the Throne bends down to ask of the rebel that lies powerless and sullen at His feet, and yet is not conquered until his heart be won, though his limbs be manacled, that he would put away all the bitterness out of his heart, and come back to the love and the grace which are ready to pour over him… He against whom we have transgressed prays us to be reconciled; and the Infinite Love lowers Himself in that lowering which is, in another aspect, the climax of His exaltation, to pray the rebels to accept His amnesty… So intense is the divine desire to win the world to His love, that He will stoop to sue for it rather than lose it. Such is at least part of the fact in the divine heart, which is shadowed forth for us by that wonderful thought of the beseeching God.’ (Excerpt from MacLaren’s Commentary on 2 Corinthians 5:20: https://biblehub.com/commentaries/2_corinthians/5-20.htm)

Carey Arban