“Karen’s Notes!
Insights from a Glory-Bound Lady”

Selected Notes
Volume 7, Number 38 “Camp Manitoumi and What Karen Wrote!”
Post # 334 September 18th, 2024

Good reminder to me. I don’t think I ever shared this with you. Many years ago several of my children, Karen, and I were the guests of Camp Manitoumi in Lowpoint, Illinois. I was the family camp speaker for the week. We had a wonderful time with the campers and the staff.

Karen had a notebook she kept in her Bible. Just this morning I was leafing through her notebook and found some notes that she took on Tuesday evening of that week. It may have been recorded long ago in her notebook, but it surely was a challenge and good reminder to me (even though I preached this outline.) I hope it will be a blessing to you as well. I will share the outline as well as fill in the Scripture for you.

Karen wrote in her notebook:
“A Wise Ambassador”
2 Corinthians 5:20a. “Now then we are ambassadors for Christ…”

1. My testimony.
I represent the LORD and Heaven. I am an ambassador for Christ.

2. My time.
I am only here in this very foreign world for a very brief time and then I will return to my Homeland, Heaven. 2 Corinthians 5:1-2, “For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven.”

3. My task.
I need to be reaching unbelievers with the gospel and seeing reconciliation take place. 1 Corinthians 5:20b-21, “As though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God. For He hath made Him to be sin for us, Who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him.”

A quick note from Mike: We have to stop, pause, and think about what we just read. The Father placed our sins upon His Son who never sinned, that we who were previously never righteous now are made the righteousness of His Son by exchange. That, my friend, is reconciliation with tons of grace.

All right, back to the conclusion of the outline.

4. My thoughts and my triumph.
These always lead me back to my Lord and my Home. 2 Corinthians 5:8-9, ”We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. Wherefore we labor, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of Him.”

Throughout our day: I hope that we remember that we are Christ’s ambassadors regardless of where we are today or what we are experiencing. May this bring you joy and encouragement today.