Christ's Personal Representative
Dear Friends, In Ephesians 4:1 (NIV) Paul urges us " to live a life worthy of the calling you have received". Our calling is to follow Christ and be his ambassadors ( 2 Corinthians 5:20 NLT) or as the Amplified Bible puts it "Christ's personal representatives". That's quite a privilege and a responsibility isn't it? I need to remember as I go about my daily business, that I'm Christ's personal representative. I am to represent him in the things I say and do. This week I needed to go to my local pharmacy to collect and pay for some of Jason's and my prescriptions. Now, I'm no maths genius but I could tell from the figure the chemist gave me that she had totalled it up wrong, she had missed off the cost of one of the prescriptions. As a follower of Christ and one of his representatives, I knew that I needed to point out that she had undercharged me. She thanked me for my honesty and seemed surprise...