Often times in politics, the President is not able to do all of the traveling, the meeting and greeting, and making the initial contacts with foreign dignitaries. Instead, he’ll appoint an ambassador to go ahead of him to lay the ground work, or even to make decisions on his behalf, almost as if he were speaking for the President. In Luke, Jesus sent out seventy-two disciples ahead of him to every town and place he was about to go with a similar objective. It was as if these seventy-two were his representatives; it was as if they were his ambassadors, imbued with his power and authority. When sending them, Jesus said in Luke, chapter 10, verse 16:

“He who listens to you listens to me; he who rejects you rejects me; but he who rejects me rejects him who sent me.”

The dictionary describes an ambassador as “a person who acts as a representative or promoter of a specified activity.” The seventy-two disciples that Jesus sent out were his ambassadors; they were his representatives. When they spoke, in many ways it was as if Jesus were speaking. When they performed miracles, it was by the authority Jesus gave them. You may have heard it said that we, as believers, are Jesus’ ambassadors today. When we show love in his name, when we do work in his name, and when we evangelize in his name it is as if he has given us authority to act on his behalf. And I would argue that even when we are just going about our day and living our lives, we are still his ambassadors. We never clock out. So if you are a believer today, I would encourage you to take on the mindset of an ambassador of Christ. He wants us all to go into the harvest field. As Jesus said earlier in the same chapter, “the harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few”. We are his workers. If we are already few in number, what will happen if some, or most of us, decide not to go into the harvest field? So I would encourage you to go. I would encourage you to be his ambassador.

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We are Christ’s ambassadors. Jesus said, “He who listens to you listens to me; he who rejects you rejects me; but he who rejects me rejects him who sent me.” So, when you share about Christ in love, don’t take it personally if someone rejects his message. They are not rejecting you, they are rejecting him. Our job is to be his vessels; to be his workers in the harvest field. And if we are walking in step with the Spirit, the result of the work is totally up to him. Remember, it is the Father who draws men unto himself. But more often than not, he chooses to use us to guide them by the hand.

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