Are you following Christ’s ambitions for your life or expecting Him to help you reach yours?”
― Stephen Davey
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A guy walks up to Jesus on the road.
Sounds like the start of a joke, doesn’t it? But it turned out to be anything but that.
He wanted to follow Jesus. I mean, REALLY follow Jesus. Great credentials. Great background.
We would have signed him up right then to be a deacon or a teacher or small group leader.
Instead, Jesus said he was only lacking one thing.
That’s not bad, right? Only lacking one thing?
Except the one thing was everything. The one thing was everything the young man had sought—money, security, comfort. They were the things that made up his ambition
And when the young man’s ambitions for his life encountered Christ’s ambitions for his life, he couldn’t do it. Achieving his ambitions were more important than following Christ.
Whose ambitions are you following?
