Thoughts and Meditations

2 Corinthians 5:17-21 (New Living Translation)
17 This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun! 18 And all of this is a gift from God, who brought us back to himself through Christ. And God has given us this task of reconciling people to him. 19 For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, no longer counting people’s sins against them. And he gave us this wonderful message of reconciliation. 20 So we are Christ’s ambassadors; God is making his appeal through us. We speak for Christ when we plead, “Come back to God!”.

Acts 1:8 (New Living Translation)
8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you. And you will be my witnesses, telling people about me everywhere—in Jerusalem, throughout Judea, in Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

The subject of last night's sermon at Frontline is something that I've been meditating on lately. I picked a couple bible passages here, but there are plenty of others that convey the same message. From these passages I gather that God saved us, reconciled us, and gave us His Spirit for the expressed and sole purpose of being witnesses/ambassadors for Christ. Rhetorically, I've been asking myself... "If God made me a new creation for the sole purpose of witnessing for Christ, yet I am comfortable with my concealed/under-cover faith, then am I really a new creation? If I were a new creation, I would live differently -- and not in the same way as I had previously, right?"

Lord, thank you for reconciling me to you through your Son and granting me the Holy Spirit. I pray that I would live a new life as a new creation -- as an ambassador of Jesus Christ. I pray that the Spirit will fill me with boldness and confession as I share my faith with this world. Amen.