The Ministry of Reconciliation v.s. The Ministry of Selfishness--come on, is there really that big of a difference?

For the past two weeks I have been engaged in an e-mail war with Bosco's teachers and administrators. I won't bore you with details, but suffice to say, I am right and they are wrong. (No, I'm not kidding about this. I'm not justifying either. I am just stating the facts.)

At the same time, something else has been happening.

My quiet times have become non-existent.

It started slowly--I've been busy, I've been sick with the flu, etc. But, when I wore out all the usual excuses, it occured to me,
I might be doing a little running from God.

Or, a lot.

Today, I finally strapped myself to my desk with a big cup of tea and opened up my bible to II Corinthians, Ch. 5 where I had last left off studying and this is what I read:

v. 18-20 "Now all these things are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation, namely that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed to us the word of reconciliation.
Therefore, we are ambasadors for Christ, as though God were entreating through us..."

Oops.

Do you think he meant the teachers and adminstrators as part of the people God is entreating through us? Can't see why they wouldn't be attracted to Christ now that I have--how shall I put it delicately?--reamed them a new one.

Yes, I am the chief of the Ministry of Selfishness. I am spewing venom on them for attacking my child. I say what I want to say to them, revelling in the fact that I am right and they are wrong, and, rubbing it in as much and as often as I can.

I think I may have figured out why my quiet times are slipping.

Has this ever happened to you?