Master Ambition

We live in an ambitious world!  Some of the most ambitious people I know are also the most passionate.  Take coffee drinkers, for example: they wake with one primary thought - coffee.  The same could be said of chocolate enthusiasts or college basketball fans.  Whatever the passion-of-the-moment ... make way!

 

We are created with, thus given to, many ambitions - many of which honor our calling in Christ!  True disciples, however, must have one master ambition: "aim to please Him" (2 Corinthians 5:9).  An education buzz-word is "assessment," and it should also be a spiritual buzz-word - one which produces real results.  One of my favorite quotes is "The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing," and how fitting this is for Believers.  Remember, Satan is the master deceiver and loves to lure us away from that main thing, leading us away from the most important.  How important it is for Christians to stay fixed on pleasing God rather than satisfying a myriad of ambitions - even the honorable ones!  Oswald Chambers wrote, "Once a week at least take stock before God and see whether you are keeping your life up to the standard He wishes.”  How do we sift our goals before God to find that one master ambition -- pleasing Him?  "You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You." (Isaiah 26:3).  We must learn "to relate everything to the master ambition."  In other words, master your ambition by making Christ your master ambition!