VERSE FOR TODAY: "For I gave them the words you gave me and they accepted them. They knew with certainty that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me" (John 17:8, New International Version).
HYMN FOR TODAY: "My Jesus, I Love Thee"
The work of ambassadors is to build relatioships between the ones who send them and those to whom they are sent. An ambassador's success is measured in the quality of the relationship built and in the length of time the relationship continues. Jesus was God's ambassador to this world, sent to build relationship between God and man, and made possible an eternal relationship. He prayed that the relationship would continue, despite those who would try to disrupt it.
We also are God's ambassadors to this world. Would our evaluation of the completion of our task here be the same as Christ's Have we pointed each person we've met to the One who gave us our mission?
Today take your job as an ambassador seriously, aw Jesus did. Think of at least one person you know who us missing out on a relationship with God, and do what you can to start building that relationship.
PRAYER THOUGHTS: Dear God, Your Son completely sacrificed Himself so that we might have a relationship with You. Let us be so moved by gratitude that we sacrifice ourselves so that others may know You. Amen.
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