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. (2 Corinthians 5:20)
O Creator and Re-creator,
I pray these children understand their role in this world - to be an ambassador for your Son. It is amazing to me that you left the work of carrying on your redeeming work through weak and flawed human beings. But that is what you have done. You expect all Christians to serve as agents of Jesus, doing what we can to spread the good news that we can be reconciled to you. That we can be one with you again, not by our own righteousness, but by the righteousness of Jesus.
May these children take on that work in their everyday lives. But may they also understand what it means for them to be an ambassador - that ambassadors serve in a foreign land. The land they serve in is not their home and at the end of their assignment, they return to their true home. May these children understand that they live in a foreign land. That this world is not their true home, rather their true home is with you. May they look on this world as a temporary place to be lived as temporary residents, holding lightly to the possessions in this land, as they look to the return to their true home with you.
Amen
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