We Have Become Ambassadors for Jesus - Part 700

Behold now is the accepted time. Today is the day of salvation. Indeed, Jesus invites each and every one of us to take up our cross and follow Him. In fact, Jesus said, "Come unto to me all you who are weary and heavy burdened and I will give you rest." (Matthew 11:28) And in so doing, know that Jesus' grace is sufficient for thee. (II Corinthians 12:9) 

How can this be? Well, as the scriptures point out, He hath made HIm to be sin for us -- He who knew no sin -- so that we -- you and I -- might be made the righteousness of God in Him. (II Corinthians 5:21) To wit, God was in the world reconciling the world unto HImself -- not imputing their trespasses unto them; but having committed unto us the Word of reconciliation. That is, the Lord God who created us in the beginning became our Saviour. He shed HIs precious blood on the cross of Calvary for our transgressions -- so that we might experience His mercy. His grace. His love for you and I.

Indeed, "This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them, and their sins and iniquities will I remember no more." (Hebrews 10:16-17) Therefore, if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. Old things are passed away. All things are become new. And all things are of God who hath reconciled us to Himself by Jesus Christ and hath given us the ministry of reconciliation. 

"Now the Lord is that Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. Therefore seeing we have this ministry -- as we have received mercy, we faint not." (II Corinthians 3:17-18 / II Corinthians 4:1)

So, while the world may appear troubling on every side, we do not need to be distressed. Neither do we need to despair because of complications around us. In fact, even in persecution, we will never be forsaken. Never abandoned. Never destroyed. Why? Because God is able to make all grace abound toward us, so that we, always having all sufficiency in all things may abound to every good work.

It is in HIm that we walk by faith. So in our day to day, look unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame. Who throughout His agony, reached out to us in love. His life for ours. That great Shepherd of the sheep forgiving us of our sins through the blood of the everlasting covenant -- making you perfect in every good work to do His will working in you that which is well pleasing in His sight through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. (Hebrews 13:20-21) Become an ambassador for Jesus today. Stand in the offering plate.