WRONG PLANET
By Rick Mathes
2 Corinthians 5:20 (NASB77) 20 Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were entreating through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
How many times I have said, “I just don’t belong here” over the years is more than I can count. I put the world behind me and now I don’t even recognize the person in the middle of that sin I once was. I really was born again. How about you? Do you feel like you just don’t fit in with most of those that you come in contact with? Well you don’t!
You are now a stranger in a strange world of phony and fake people, places and things. Like a move set. Everything looks real but when you look around it, it is only one inch thick. There is no substance to Satan’s kingdom. Nothing is as it appears to be and everything is broken. Life is nothing but a living fraud, a poor copy of hwat it will be when Christ returns to reign for 1,000 years.
In the meantime we still have to go about the Lord’s business and be His pilgrims just passing through. We are to live for Him and light in the darkness and populate the remnant the devil can’t touch. We walk on foreign soil no matter where we call home. We live among people with a culture that is contrary to everything we believe to be good and holy.
It may be a strange country or civilization we find ourselves in but we still need to be reminded that we are ambassadors for the King. We are His and on this mission for a season. Sometime in our future is our last earthly heartbeat and our first gasp at the glory of our true home. Our first nature is to walk and talk with God in the cool of the day. Every tick of the clock draws us that much closer to our return s we must make the best we can of what three score and ten we have to represent Him to a lost and dying planet.
We are not just observers to this life experience; we are walking, living cameras that record all we’ve seen. Yes, even our thoughts will not escape a public hearing. Do we need the protection of Jesus? You bet we do. This question remains: will He say, “Well done, my good and faithful servant?” The jury is out.
PRESS ON!
Rick Mathes 