In 2 Cor 5, Paul says we should always feel fully confident in the promise of eternal life. Though our earthly body makes us grow weary, groan, and sigh, we can look forward to the day when we will put on our heavenly bodies. God himself has prepared us for this very purpose and has given us the Holy Spirit to guarantee what is to come. Our goal , then, should be to live our lives to please Him. Since we are aware of God's power in us, we should share the truth from a sincere heart, knowing that Christ's love controls us and the glory will be God's. We no longer live for ourselves but for Christ, and will stand before Him one day and receive both our reward and wages. But we know that the free gift of God is eternal life, for he brought us back to himself through Christ. This reconciliation that God has done through Christ is being appealed to the world through us. We need to speak for Christ as "ambassadors" to plead with people to "come back to God" . "For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, no longer counting people's sin against them." I pray God will help me to embrace the privilege He provides us to encourage others to believe in Christ.