Interview

2 Cor 5:19-6:2
20 We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf: Be reconciled to God.
21 God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.


2 Corinthians 6

1 As God's fellow workers we urge you not to receive God's grace in vain.
2 For he says,

"In the time of my favor I heard you,
and in the day of salvation I helped you."

I tell you, now is the time of God's favor, now is the day of salvation.
(from New International Version)

Whether we like it or not everyone is going to have to go through a job interview, some of us more times then we would prefer. It is just one of those things that if you want a job you are going to have to go through an interview process. Could you imagine getting a chance to interview for a dream position at the perfect job and sending someone else to represent you at your interview? That would be taking a long shot chance, because there is only one you. What if they don’t know all the right answers to the interview questions and bomb the interview? Then you are left unemployed. It would be hard to find someone that you could trust enough that could represent your attitude, personality, talent, skill, and ability.

The truth is that God has chosen us to represent him as a mirror reflection of who God is and what heaven will be like. We are representatives of God Almighty! When people spend time with a person proclaiming to be a Christian, it is like they are interviewing what God is like. People will judge God by the way they are treated by Christians. That is why it is very important for us who confess Jesus as our Lord to love others the way Jesus loved others. Our actions speak louder then our words. Here is an important question for us to ask ourselves: “If I was sent alone to a foreign country as an Ambassador of Jesus Christ what impression would I portray of Christianity?” Bringing it back to home, now what about the clerk at the grocery store, the bank teller, my co-workers, and my neighbors? When people spend time with us do they feel loved unconditionally and inspired to live a more righteous life? Remember we are Christ’s Ambassadors everyday and everywhere we go.

Coyright Greg Graham 2007