Ambassadors for Christ

2nd Corinthians 5:20 says:  Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ’s behalf, be reconciled to God. ²¹ For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

Article from Christian Examiner.

Nancy Stafford, who played Ben Matlock's daughter on the hit TV series starring Andy Griffith, was presented an Ambassador’s Award Sept. 17 during the 13^th annual Media Fellowship International Praise Brunch.
 
The award is bestowed to Hollywood insiders for their witness for Christ in the entertainment industry.
“I feel overwhelmed,” she told the crowd. “We’re all ambassadors and so I don’t know why I was singled out, but I so appreciate it. We all have the opportunity to bring the light of the Lord into every place that he positions us in and that’s a mandate for everybody.”


On dictionary.com, the word ambassador is defined as:
a diplomatic official of the highest rank, sent by one sovereign or state to another as its resident representative.  In its simplest form, the word means an authorized messenger or representative.

I guess you could say that an ambassador is officially a resident of the country he or she is representing.   And, we are citizens of another kingdom, actually; because our citizenship is in heaven.  And, Peter says to the Christian believers:
11 Beloved, I urge you as aliens and strangers to abstain from fleshly lusts which wage war against the soul. 12 Keep your behavior excellent among the Gentiles, so that in the thing in which they slander you as evildoers, they may because of your good deeds, as they observe them, glorify God in the day of visitation.

So, no matter where you are in life, whatever your occupation or sphere of influence, you're called to be an ambassador, an authorized representative of the kingdom of heaven.   And, even when the apostle Paul was imprisoned, he did not back away from that ambassador's role.  He asked hat people would pray for him: that utterance may be given to me, that I may open my mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel, ²⁰ for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

So, we speak and act as citizens of heaven, prompted and strengthened by the Holy Spirit.