October 8

2 Corinthians 5:20
 
“Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God”— 2 Corinthians 5:2020Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God. (2 Corinthians 5:20).
“AMBASSADORS for Christ.” This is the title Paul gives to those who seek to carry out our Lord’s instruction as to evangelizing the nations. While our Saviour Himself is personally in Heaven, seated on the right hand of the divine Majesty (Heb. 1:33Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; (Hebrews 1:3)), we are called to represent Him in this world, going to rebels against the authority of the God of Heaven and earth, and pleading with them to be reconciled to Him who sent His Son in grace that all men might through Him have life and peace. We are unfaithful representatives indeed if we fail to respond to the command laid upon us, and allow our fellowmen to perish in their sins unwarned and knowing not the way of life.
“From the glory and the gladness,
From His secret place;
From the rapture of His Presence
From the radiance of His face—
Christ the Son of God hath sent me
Through the midnight lands;
Mine, the mighty ordination
Of the pierced Hands.”