Ambassador in chains
April 21, 2023
Do your circumstances today just not make sense? Your goals and what you want to accomplish don’t match the mundane restrictions of your real life today? The apostle Paul had the same problem. In Ephesians 6: 20 he describes himself as an ‘ambassador in chains.‘ Wait a minute. Ambassadors are people who travel. They ‘represent’ in different locations. And they live in lovely places. Ambassador residences I’ve seen around the world are usually beautiful, protected, and divine.
Paul was in chains–going nowhere. He was likely in a dungeon or if on house arrest, not in the most specious of places. “Ambassador in chains.”
But he was effective exactly in those circumstances. He wrote 24% of the New Testament there.
Take heart, my friend. Do what you can where you are.