Are you an alien and living as an ambassdor?

We are to be aliens while living on this earth. You might ask, “What do you mean?”. The definition of Alien is as follows: residing under a government or in a country other than that of one's birth without having or obtaining the status of citizenship there.

According to the Word of God once we accept Jesus as our savior we are a new creation and not a part of this world which would make us aliens to this world. The Word says we have been translated from the kingdom of darkness into the kindom of His light. We have changed our citizenship. We are told according to 2 Corinthians 5:20 that as a new creation, a new citizen, living on this earth, we are to be abassadors for Christ.

An ambassador lives in a foreign country and represents his country of citizenship and will some day return to his nation of citizenship. We have our citizenship in heaven and we are living in a foreign country= earth, and we are to represent our country, heaven, and will one day return there. My husband and I have visited many foreign countries and when you visit a foreign country you usually stand out. The way you dress is different, the language you speak is different, the way you think is different, you are culturally different. Do you stand out as being different, following another culture, or have you taken on the characteristics of this world's system? God tells us we are to follow His system and not that of this world. Our mores, our integrity, our guideline for life should be of God's system. Do you accept as good that which God says is evil. Do you do things just because every one is doing it and because society has accepted it or do you preserve yourself following God's Word? The world says there are no absolutes yet God's Word should be our absolute guide adhereing to God's absolute principles. People don't follow God's word as they don't want to stand out and be different. BUT that is exactly what God's word says we are to do! We are to stand out as being different. As this world system is rapidly changing in what it accepts as good and right we should stand out even more as aliens to this world's system belonging to another kingdom.

Does your way of life line up with this world's system or does your life line up to God's kingdom?

Romans 12:2 NASB
And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.

Have you let society change what you think is good and acceptable and therefore no longer take a stand for God's teachings? Or are you allowing God's Word to change your thinking and through His Word and being empowered by His Holy Spirit take a stand for God proving by your actions and your words what the will of God is and showing the world what is good, acceptable, and perfect according to Romans 12:2?

I thought about this when I saw a friend's post on facebook that stated since divorce is now acceptable in our society why don't we accept and embrace the other things God says are sins? She was stating that it was time to discard God's teachings since society now says certain things are acceptable. God's Word is true and should be our standard. If God says he hates something we should not as followers of God and Jesus Christ embrace it. There are many attitudes that are contrary to the Word of God that Chrisitans are now embracing due to the culture of this land. God says to be an alien, a foreigner to this world's way of thinking and not to think and act like this world's system.

1 Peter 2:9 = But you are a chosen race, a royal preisthood, a dedicated nation, God's own purchased, special people, His treasure, that you may set forth the wonderful deeds and display the virtues and perfections of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light. Remember we have been translated into the Kingdom of Light.

We are to display His virtues. I looked up the meaning of virtue and this is what I found:

1. moral excellence; goodness; righteousness.

conformity of one's life and conduct to moral and ethical principles; uprightness; rectitude.

Perfections of Him = a perfect embodiment or example of something.

a quality, trait, or feature of the highest degree of 

excellence.

We should be walking in moral excellence and goodness displaying the righteousness of Christ Jesus as his representatives. The Christian walk is not a spectator sport. You actively participate in being God's ambassador. You bring every thought captive to the obedience of Christ which in turn changes your actions. The world tries to train your thinking and thereby changes your actions by what you learn at school, what you watch and see on TV, and the words on the music you listen to- which all go into your your mind and thereby change your actions. The world understands this is how to change a society. That's why it is so important to dwell on God's Word and train your thinking to line up with God's kingdom. You have a choice to feed your body, mind, and soul the things of this world and this world's thinking, or to feed your Spirit the Word of God and uphold His virtues in the way you think and act. We should look and act different than the followers of this world. People are trying so hard to confrom to this world so they look and act like everyone else, yet God tells us we are to be different. He has empowered us by the Holy Spirit to resist the temptations of this world, to train our senses to discern good and evil, to retrain our thinking to line up to His Word, and to be a light in this dark world.

Hebrews 5:14 & 15 amplified version = For everyone who continues to feed on milk is obviously inexperienced and unskilled in the doctrine of righteousness, (that is, of conformity to the divine will in purpose, thought and action,) for he is a mere infant-not able to talk yet! But solid food is for full-grown men, for those whose senses and mental faculties are trained by practice to discriminate and distinguish between what is morally good and noble and what is evil and contrary either to divine or human law.

Do you make it a habit to put into practice God's principles or the principles of this World?

We are a new creation revealing the image of God and releasing His power on this earth. If someone looks at you and is around you can they tell by your actions and your words that you are an alien to this world's system, a follower of Christ, whose citizenship is in heaven or do you blend in with this world?