In both (2 Corinthians 5:20) and (Ephesians 6:20), Paul says that he and his co-workers were Ambassadors of Christ. Notice how it didn't say, "for" Christ. It is because we as simple Christians in our New Creations are still simple Christians in our New Creations. And, as James describes it we have all things worthwhile in us due to it coming down from the Kingdom of Heaven.
An ambassador is one sent by a particular authority to contact certain people. The faithful believers (faithful meaning keeping the horse before the cart; or God always leading us by way of His Spirit communicating with ours),are ambassadors sent by God, the Highest Authority in the Universe. They are one with God, representing God to carry out His purpose in Christ on this earth.
Now that sounded, even to me, to be a dry sermon, like the one's I slept thru as my Dad was a pastor. But this call is anything but dry, it is our New Supernatural Normalcy we live even in the trenches and in the "so-called" ordinarinesses of our earthly life. We walk around as Co-hiers with Christ (always), as His Children representing (always) God's Kingdom. The question is, "are we always looking up, as to who we are?"
Love is one of the things that are above where Christ is ... which we, as Christians, shouldalways seek in our present life
In saying that we should do the things of the heavenly life in this earthly life, we are not to infer that the common work of this world is unworthy. We use the words “secular” (not meaning here sinful) and “spiritual”sometimes in a way that disparages what we call secular. We talk about the secular affairs of a good man, or of a church, as if they were not sacred, at least as if they were of a lower order than certain other kinds of work which we call “spiritual.” We need to guard ourselves carefully in making such distinctions, lest we do dishonor to men or women who do as holy and as worshipful service in their common, daily task-work, as they could do if their lives were devoted to “spiritual service.” In other words: we are ambassadors in Church, but even more so in our common (secular) work places.
The Scripture says not a word against what we call secular business. Jesus did not ask thathis disciples should be taken out of the world – he asked rather that they should stay in theworld, and that they should be kept from the world’s evil. It is as much a duty to earn one’sdaily bread as it is to pray.
The holiest duties of earth are often times found in places which seem unheavenly. It is the heart that makes any service sacred or reverent. One may be a Janitor and please Christbetter, get greater blessing, be a better citizen of heaven, than another who is a “ministerof the gospel,” busy with insistent duties. We must never forget that the Son of God cameto earth and spent thirty years in what we would thoughtlessly call secular work. While hetoiled at his carpenter’s bench, his heart was in the holy of holies. He was in communionwith the Father all the while he was wrestling with the axe, hammer and saw. Let no one call thecarpenter work of Jesus unholy – it was pleasing to His Father.
When we seek to do the things that are above, where Christ is, most of us find the bulk of ouroccupation in common tasks and duties. Tomorrow we shall have to rise early and go to ourbusiness, and there will be no dishonor, no irreverence in our most diligent devotion to thesetasks and occupations.
It may seem an impossible life to which this message calls us, but no divine command evercalls one to an impossibility. ... Seek the things that are above where Christ is, and your lifewill grow here into the beginnings of heavenliness as the days pass.We need to see this call of Ambassadorship as not an exception to the rule of life, or even a higher honor than that of our position in Christ living our lives thru Him. For basically these are one in the same. For as God speaks, so too does Jesus, and as Jesus speaks, so too does the Holy Spirit, and as the Holy Spirit speaks, so too does our spirit speak to our soul, as long as we are listening, and the message is all the same - "The Great Commission." (Matt.).
It is not an exception to serve as Ambassadors of Christ; yet it is a honor given by God Himself. But it happens when we buy a cup of coffee at 7-11. When we shop at our grocery store and help the older lady pick-up that 20 lb. Turkey we are given opportunities to represent Christ.
As we go from what we think are the important points "A"'s to point "B"'s - we are His Ambassadors, and many times the most effective, in-between those points. We need to remember we not only represent Him as a worker, but we represent Him when we sin, as a fallen Christian to the world. That should bring emotion to our spirits immediately as much as the lost and dying being reconciled to God.