Therefore we also have as our ambition, whether at home or absent, to be pleasing to Him.I read this verse, and had to pause. I know I can say things like this, and probably do more than I can recall right now. But do I really mean it?
Ambition is "a strong desire to achieve something, typically requiring determination and hard work" according to Google. While I want to do what's right by God, I don't really feel like it's a strong desire; more that it's a goal that seems perpetually out of reach. And I don't really feel like I'm working very hard to get to wherever that place may be; come to think of it, it seems in several parts of my life I don't know where the goal is, either, only that it's over the horizon in a certain general direction.
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