God's Ambassador

From: The Christian Shepherd: 2003 By: John Gifford Bellett

• 1 min. read • grade level: 5

“Praying... that utterance may be given unto me.... I am an ambassador in bonds” (Eph. 6:18-20¹⁸Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints; ¹⁹And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel, ²⁰For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak. (Ephesians 6:18‑20)).

Did you ever hear of an ambassador of one nation being put in bonds by the nation to which he was sent? God has fared worse in this world. And what message did this Ambassador bring? A message of boundless grace. And that is the way He has been treated. The law of nations would not allow it for an instant, yet that is the way God, for two thousand years, through His servants and witnesses, has consented to be treated.

J. G. Bellett

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