Ambassadors of the Wind
As John records the unfolding of the good news to the people of Jesus’ day, he makes continual reference to the two realms of reality: the physical world and the spiritual world. Spirit is not flesh. The two do not naturally coexist in the same world.
That is why the Word (the spiritual makeup and meaning of all) had to become flesh in order to live among us. That is also why flesh and blood people like us must be born spiritually if we want to get into the realm of the Spirit of God. Jesus had to be born of a woman to become flesh; we have to be born of the Holy Spirit to become spirit.
Jesus tries to explain how different it is in the dimension from which He came, when He speaks to Nicodemus about the wind–-a natural phenomenon that is hard to get a handle on. Jesus, who comes from above, knows exactly what it is like in the heavens. He lives the way they live in Heaven, He speaks like they do, and He follows precisely the same customs as they do in Heaven.
Thus, Jesus is an ambassador who carefully portrays to the natural world what life is really like in God’s world of spirit. He speaks from above and fully displays the life of the Spirit to the lives of flesh. By being Himself and by fully living out the very life (style) of God, Jesus witnesses to everyone who meets Him.
In the same way, you and I are called ambassadors (2 Corinthians 5:20)–literally, elder statesmen–whose primary diplomatic function is to example and model the way of life God wants to introduce to the world. By being our true selves, devoid of the ruinous works of sin, and by following the ways (customs, habits, manner of life) of the Lord, we too, witness to all who meet us.
Jesus was neither a hermit nor a Pharisee; living God’s way of life neither pressed Him to seclusion away from people, nor urged Him to become legalistic. Rather, the eternal (spiritual) life He lived on earth made Him the sort of person to whom children, invalids, failures and wrongdoers were attracted. He loved them, and He told them the good news.
The good news was that they could become like the wind, soaring above the earth and all of its pain. They could become other than what they were. They could enter a kingdom of life and love from which death and disappointment had been forever banished. We are ambassadors of the wind. Our joyful privilege is to invite our friends and acquaintances to join us in our flight through the heavens.
