Ambassadors

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

I like Star Trek. 

There, my little secret it out. Mary and I are slowly but surely working through the the original series on Netflix. It seems like every view episodes in Star Trek history from the the earliest voyages under Captain Jonathan Archer, through the command of James T. Kirk, and on to Captain Picard the various incarnations of the Enterprise was carrying an ambassador someplace on some kind of peace mission. 

Sometimes the ambassadors where good and sometimes they we bad, but they normally reflected the planet or the system they were from. You could almost always tell the nature of a race by their ambassador.  That was, after all, their job. They were sent to represent their people on am embassage to treat for peace. 

And in that regard we are called 'ambassadors for Christ.'  We carry the message of Christ's peace to our land of sojourning. We are called to a life-long ambassadorial mission. 

We need to ask ourselves on a regular basis. Are we representing our heavenly home? What kind of ambassadors are we? If people were to judge Gd and His heaven on my representation what would they think? 

Sometimes ambassadors have to take a risk for their home country. Are we willing to take those risks in order bring the world around us to peace with our King?