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Discipleship Focus: Ambition
- Ambition: We all need a goal to which we can strive. When our ambition comes from God, we find fulfillment in our obedience into that for which we have been equipped because our Out is in proper focus. But when our ambition comes from ourselves, we find ourselves chasing after our own dreams and trying to find fulfillment in accomplishments of our own making.
I could
easily do another blog post on God being the king. After all, isn’t that what the vast majority
of this chapter is all about? Can Job
clothe himself in righteousness? Can Job
judge over creation? Is it not God who
is King and not Job?
However,
as I’ve done the last few days I want to talk about this on a deeper
level. What is it that got Job into this
little moment with God? Yes, Job is
righteous in God’s eyes. But even in his
righteousness Job sinned. Job focused on
how he was being wronged and how God didn’t do anything about it. Rather than focus on what God might do
through it, Job focused on himself. He
wants to be right. He wants to have all
the answers. He wants to be vindicated.
The
question is, why? Why is this so
important to Job? Why does Job have to
be right? Why does he have to be on
top? I think the answer is in the human
desire for ambition. Job wants to be
right, not focus on what God is doing.
Job wants to be vindicated, not used by God. Job wants the record to be set straight, not
be humble before God. Job wants to
accuse God for not defending him rather than stop and listen to what God is
actually doing.
Don’t get
me wrong. Job does eventually figure it
out. Here in this passage Job finally
realizes he needs to shut up and clasp his hand over his mouth. This is where we finally see his humbleness
shine through for good. Here we see Job
finally put aside his quest for vindication and be silently humble before
God. We finally see that Job gets
it. It isn’t about him. It isn’t about his ambition. It is about God.
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