It is important for us to receive good news for it lifts the spirit. But it is just as important to bring good news to another as well.
"A wicked messenger falls into evil, but a faithful ambassador brings healing." Proverbs 13:17, Amplified
I like how the verse is laid out. First it speaks of a messenger, then it speaks of an ambassador. In this situation I would liken the messenger to a mail carrier and the ambassador to an actual political ambassador. Here is why.
A messenger has no real authority. All they are doing in delivering a word or a package from point A to point B. If that messenger should be wicked, then the he falls into evil. What this means is that the message will become distorted along the way. Either he will open the package, destroy the package or even change the message. Uriah the Hittite was a faithful messenger. He delivered his death sentence from the king to Joab without even realizing. Had he been a wicked messenger, he would have opened the message and saved his own life. But for his faithfulness to his king, Bathsheba will be forever known as the wife of Uriah (Matthew 1:6)
An ambassador, however, is given the power to speak for a king and in effect speak for an entire nation. We can be that ambassador, each of us individually can be ambassadors of heaven. If we are faithful in spreading the gospel, then we are that faithful ambassador. To bring a good word to a person is to bring health. It seems at time some are offended at the gospel and even hurt. Think of it like this. When peroxide goes on to an infected wound, it hurts because of all the filth that it contains. Now the less filthy the wound the less it will hurt. The same can be said for the gospel and a filthy heart. We just need to be that faithful ambassador who brings that healing word. We need to face the fact that cookies from our mothers never really healed, they just made us forget.
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