Today's promise: The whole earth will
hear
A reliable messenger
An unreliable messenger
stumbles into trouble, but a reliable messenger brings healing.
Proverbs 13:17 NLT
A credible message needs a credible messenger because charisma without character is catastrophe.
Peter Kuzmic
Letters from God
A U.S. ambassador
resides in a foreign country and yet lives on U.S.-owned property. Though the
laws of that land may differ from ours, the ambassador is still responsible to
uphold the laws and rules of his own government. His words and actions can
never be wholly his for he does not act in his own capacity. When he speaks, he
is a messenger for his government. When he acts, his deeds reflect on the country
he represents. We are Christ's ambassadors and therefore his messengers. Too
often we think that the message we preach reflects our faith. However, on a
much deeper level it is the message of our everyday words and actions that are
influential. We are the letter from God that people read. We become unreliable
messengers when we speak crudely, gossip about a neighbor, or act dishonest y.
Our words and actions
reflect God, who lives inside us, to people who never open a Bible or enter a
church. Never forget that you are an ambassador for Christ and a messenger of
hope. Ask his Spirit to empower you to deliver the Good News with your life and
words.
LORD, thank you for
allowing me to be your ambassador. Let my message be honest and true. Help me
to encourage others and to go out of my way to speak a kind word. Forgive me
for times when I have spoken without thinking. Let me live in such a way that
my words and actions represent you so that my message may be one of love and
hope.
Adapted from The One Year® Book of Praying through the Bible
by Cheri Fuller, Tyndale House Publishers (2003), entry for April 21.
Content is derived
from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation and other publications of Tyndale
Publishing House
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