Ambassadors for Christ - Toni M. Babcock
“For who has known the Lord’s mind, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.” (1 Corinthians 2:16 CSB)
We have two major dilemmas as ambassadors for Christ: when to open our mouths, and when to employ silence. Christ used both techniques for the kingdom of God and we can learn from the Master if we would learn to be wise.
The problem for many of us is, we don’t speak when we ought to, and we’re silent when we have no reason to keep quiet. Others have no problem speaking out on impulse, but risk speaking so loudly and so often their words become noise. They risk becoming more of a clanging cymbal than a melody of love drawing sinners to the Savior. It really comes down to reliance upon God.
Such commissions and omissions happen because, as saved sinners in need of instruction, we haven’t learned to really listen to and learn from the Master. Only He knows how a word unwisely spoken can do the devil’s work, and how a word not spoken at all can be just as harmful and destructive.
How can we be discerning enough to judge between the two and say the right thing? The Apostle James gives us the answer:
“Now if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God — who gives to all generously and ungrudgingly —and it will be given to him. But let him ask in faith without doubting…” (James 1:5-6a CSB).
We have “the mind of Christ” as believers in Jesus. Lay your worries and doubts aside and seek his wisdom as to what to say and not say in your work as an ambassador for Him.
Toni M. Babcock is author of Reflections from the Heart. Contact | 
