Assaulted by Ambition (2 of 8)
Series: The Great Escape
Joey Rodgers
Luke 18:18
It's amazing how many life lessons can be learned from a preschool toy. Take for example this little canister. As you're aware, this toy is used to help kids learn their shapes/colors while working on their fine motor skills. Yet from this toy they also learn something we seem to forget - you can't fit a square peg into a round hole.
Solomon, the richest/wisest guy to ever live struggled w/ this idea. He tried, ''Everything under the sun'' to fill the hole in his heart. In his journal, Ecclesiastes, he said, ''I said to myself, I said to my heart, 'Come now. Let's just see what might fill up this hole in my heart.''' He tried everything! Only to conclude, ''You know what I learned. It's all meaningless. It's like chasing after the wind.'' He learned you can't cram a square peg into a round hole or use the things of this world to fill the hole in your heart.
Last week we began a series entitled, the Great Escape in which we're investigating the biggest lies in our lives we use to fill the God-shaped hole in our hearts that usually steal away our intimacy w/ God. Last week we looked at anxiety; today we're going to look at ambition.
ambition - is the desire/determination to succeed.
Such a definition seems benign; but for most, ambition is a quality to be revered more than it's to be feared - yet how quickly we can be stolen by success when our earthly ambition supersedes our spiritual calling.
I believe the Bible teaches ambition is a gift from God, and that Godly ambition is a quality to be cherished; yet like so many things in life, when it's misunderstood and misapplied - it can lead us astray down a path where we seek the things of this world to fill the hole in our heart instead of allowing God and His will to satisfy our soul.
In speaking on ambition - Pastor John Stott wrote: In the end, there are only two kinds of ambition - self-centered and God-cent ...
Series: The Great Escape
Joey Rodgers
Luke 18:18
It's amazing how many life lessons can be learned from a preschool toy. Take for example this little canister. As you're aware, this toy is used to help kids learn their shapes/colors while working on their fine motor skills. Yet from this toy they also learn something we seem to forget - you can't fit a square peg into a round hole.
Solomon, the richest/wisest guy to ever live struggled w/ this idea. He tried, ''Everything under the sun'' to fill the hole in his heart. In his journal, Ecclesiastes, he said, ''I said to myself, I said to my heart, 'Come now. Let's just see what might fill up this hole in my heart.''' He tried everything! Only to conclude, ''You know what I learned. It's all meaningless. It's like chasing after the wind.'' He learned you can't cram a square peg into a round hole or use the things of this world to fill the hole in your heart.
Last week we began a series entitled, the Great Escape in which we're investigating the biggest lies in our lives we use to fill the God-shaped hole in our hearts that usually steal away our intimacy w/ God. Last week we looked at anxiety; today we're going to look at ambition.
ambition - is the desire/determination to succeed.
Such a definition seems benign; but for most, ambition is a quality to be revered more than it's to be feared - yet how quickly we can be stolen by success when our earthly ambition supersedes our spiritual calling.
I believe the Bible teaches ambition is a gift from God, and that Godly ambition is a quality to be cherished; yet like so many things in life, when it's misunderstood and misapplied - it can lead us astray down a path where we seek the things of this world to fill the hole in our heart instead of allowing God and His will to satisfy our soul.
In speaking on ambition - Pastor John Stott wrote: In the end, there are only two kinds of ambition - self-centered and God-cent ...
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