Evaluate Ambition
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“The missionary heart: Care more than some think is wise. Risk more than some think is safe. Dream more than some think is practical. Expect more than some think is possible. I was called not to comfort or success but to obedience… There is no joy outside of knowing Jesus and serving him.”
James 3:14–16 (KJV 1900)
14 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
15 This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
No one wants confusion in the ministry
No one wants confusion in the ministry
Much of the “being pulled in every direction” is not the challenge of life and ministry but the battle of a heart
There is a wisdom that that doesn’t come from God but is earthly
How can you tell whether your ambitions are godly or ungodly?
How can you tell whether your ambitions are godly or ungodly?
Godly ambition aims at God’s glory; ungodly ambition aims at yours.
Godly ambition aims at God’s glory; ungodly ambition aims at yours.
How addicted are you to people’s praise?
Can encouragement cheer your heart without going to your head?
Are you willing to speak hard truths if it means being passionately disliked?
Godly ambition energizes you to joyfully fulfill all the duties of your many roles; ungodly ambition leads you to neglect less-glamorous duties in favor of those that will be seen.
Godly ambition energizes you to joyfully fulfill all the duties of your many roles; ungodly ambition leads you to neglect less-glamorous duties in favor of those that will be seen.
Pastoral ministry is an ‘evergreen excuse to neglect your family.: The work is never finished.
Family is an “evergreen excuse to neglect your responsibility.” Your work as husband and dad is never done.
Godly ambition fosters contentment with whatever obscurity or notoriety the Lord ordains; ungodly ambition creates coveting and competition.
Godly ambition fosters contentment with whatever obscurity or notoriety the Lord ordains; ungodly ambition creates coveting and competition.
John 21:20-22 “20 Then Peter, turning about, seeth the disciple whom Jesus loved following; which also leaned on his breast at supper, and said, Lord, which is he that betrayeth thee? 21 Peter seeing him saith to Jesus, Lord, and what shall this man do? 22 Jesus saith unto him, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee? follow thou me.”
Every day we should rejoice in the fact we get to know God from His Word, that we are saved, and we should rejoice in things that have nothing to do with us.
Every day we should rejoice in the fact we get to know God from His Word, that we are saved, and we should rejoice in things that have nothing to do with us.
Slay wrong ambitions and daily resurrect godly ones.
9 Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.
The opposite of selfish ambition is not passivity but selfless ambition.