THE EMISSARY PT I

We cannot take away a message from the messenger and the messenger from the message, but we often misinterpret their roles. As much as the messenger is non-existent without the message, the message will also lack its meaning if the messenger is taken out of the equation because the messenger was meant to carry, hold and deliver the message while the message is supposed to give the messenger a purpose, a mission/vision and goal. With the the importance and position of each to another established, I want to talk about the person to whom the message was sent to, I mean the target of the messenger, who is only but an emissary of someone much greater and powerful (talking about emissary, I recall the scene from 300, where the emissary of the great King Xerxes, played by Peter Mensah delivered his message to Leonidas and the ensuing conversation). Allow me to digress a little, you see, that emissary came with boldness and confidence knowing who sent him and the message he carries, I am pretty sure he was just an ordinary soldier who has worked his way through the ranks and attained the position worthy of carrying King Xerxes' message, so carrying the message of a great King qualified and elevated a common man to the position that he can have private conversations with other Kings and even the courage to "insult" a Queen, even though that cost him his dear life and that of those who accompanied him. We call them Ambassadors this days right? 

Who sends you and the message you carry qualifies and elevates you to the level Kings, it gives you unparalleled access to whatever your principal would have benefited if he were to be there in person. For example, the ambassador of Nigeria to any country have a certain level of "Presidential treatment" because he is there at the behest of the President, he is carrying the message of the President to that country hence, his authority. He has the privilege to live and enjoy like the President irrespective of his previous political, social and financial status, he protects the interest of his country and he answers to no one other than his principal. 

Like it or not, we are here carrying a message from someone to the world, the question is, What message do you carry and whose emissary are you?

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