The Bible says we are ambassadors for Christ. Many people, if not most, take that to mean we are his representatives only earth, called to speak about him. The truth is, as his ambassadors we are called to re-present him, bearing witness of his resurrection life on this earth. At the heart of our being a new creation is our union with Christ, and as people in Christ we are to daily manifest His very life, in whatever context we find ourselves in. Jesus continues to declare and reveal his kingdom and his rule through his new body, the Church. We are not primarily heralds of an apologetic about Jesus, instead, we are to give demonstration of the life of Christ, which is the life abundant that Jesus promises all those who surrender to His finished work at the Cross.
Look at Acts 19:11 concerning what be in an ambassador for Jesus should actually look like. “And God was performing extraordinary miracles by the hands of Paul.” Jesus has a new set of hands through which to do work of redemptive healing, and those hands are ours. We are the body of Christ, and therefore my hands are his hands to work through, and my feet are his feet to walk with into any situation he chooses, and my ears are His ears to hear with, and my mind is his to think with, and my lips are his to speak through, and my heart is his to love with. This is the normal Christian life, and therefore we should expect Jesus to live the same kind of life he lived in the pages of Scripture, on the pages of the routine of my daily life. In light of the fact that we are in union with Christ, we should daily expect, what he would expect, and we should never allow what He would not allow. As his ambassadors were called to re-present him. We matter in this fallen world, not just by telling people about Him, but by giving them a chance to have a life-changing encounter with him, through our lives. Too many of us spend our days walking past broken humanity, suffering under the oppression of the devil without ever even crossing our mind that we can do something about it, because we are in union Christ.
If we are in union with Christ then we should expect what He would and we shouldn’t allow what He wouldn’t.