We Are Ambassadors For Christ
For the love of Christ urges us on,
because we are convinced that one has died for all; therefore all have died.
And he died for all, so that those who live might live no longer for
themselves, but for him who die and was raised for him.
From now on, therefore, we regard no
one from a human point of view; even though we once knew Christ from a human
point of view, we know him no longer in that way. So if anyone is in Christ,
there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see,
everything has become new! All this from God, who reconciled us to
himself through Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation; that
is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their
trespasses against them, and entrusting the message of reconciliation to us. So
we are ambassadors for Christ, since God is making his appeal through us; we
entreat you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. For our sake he made him
to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of
God.
We all wonder who we are, and what we
are here for. We go from relationship to relationship with our families, our
churches, and our co-workers.
God did make us in His image, but sin
stabbed our souls and denied us the joy of a relationship with our Creator. Our
identity as His prized and precious creation was damaged until Jesus Christ
came on the scene to rescue us and reclaim His created ones for His own. When
we trust Christ for salvation, we gain the privileged status of being in Him.
He takes all that is old and makes it new.
Once you realize you are a new
creation, you will never have another identity crisis of who you are and what
you are supposed to do in life. You are here to witness for Jesus Christ as
your Lord and Savior.
To resolve our
identity crisis we must be identified with Christ.
Our Daily
Bread March 1, 2007