AMBITIOUS OR OBEDIENT (Part 2)
Are
you obedient to God’s leading or ambitious for human applause?
Adesina Abegunde
Adesina Abegunde
1
Samuel 15:22 (TLB)
22 Samuel replied, "Has the Lord as much pleasure in your burnt offerings and sacrifices as in your obedience? Obedience is far better than sacrifice. He is much more interested in your listening to him than in your offering the fat of rams to him.
22 Samuel replied, "Has the Lord as much pleasure in your burnt offerings and sacrifices as in your obedience? Obedience is far better than sacrifice. He is much more interested in your listening to him than in your offering the fat of rams to him.
Beloved, I believe you
are making some serious checkup on your life already? The LORD will guide you
to make critical life adjustment in Jesus name.
In the first part of
this series, I gave few scriptures for the readers to think about, I hope you
did? Perhaps you didn’t see the last post, you may take time later to read it
up.The question for you is “Are you living an ambitious life or an obedient
life?”
We certainly have
ambitious leaders and obedient leaders, while ambition is not bad, we are
called to be obedient or let me say God want us to be obediently ambitious.
To be ambitious means
to have an ardent drive for achievement or success, most times by all means. A
strong desire to achieve one’s esteemed desire not even minding whether it
pleases God or not.The essence of what I am saying here is that the origination
of ambition is never God. When we are ambitious, we do what we want the way we
want it, or we do what God want the way we want it. Below are the two ambition
equations:
Ambition
= human will + human way
Ambition
= God’s will + human way
Obedience
on the other hand, has only one equation:
Obedience = God’s will + God’s way
As Samuel challenged Saul, "Has the Lord as much
pleasure in your burnt offerings and sacrifices as in your obedience?” There is
no amount of ambition that can replace obedience, however impressive the
ambition is. Ambition only move men but not God, and remember that He has the last
say on the last day.
To be obedient means to do nothing other than what God want
done and in no way other than how God want it done. It is passionately pursuing
what you can trace clearly to divine directives. Sometimes we begin in the LORD
and wrongly end in flesh, we begin with obedience and wrongly end with
ambition.
Ambitious people pursue
there will or even God’s will in their own way, they want to get what they want
done anyhow, even when it will not glorify God. Can you analyse some things
that you did recently and how you did them? Can you check out your plans for
the next ten years? Can you check your career goals? Did they portray obedience
or ambition?
John
5:19 (NLT)
Jesus replied, "I assure you, the Son can do nothing by himself. He does only what he sees the Father doing. Whatever the Father does, the Son also does.
Jesus replied, "I assure you, the Son can do nothing by himself. He does only what he sees the Father doing. Whatever the Father does, the Son also does.
Your life will not end in frustration and failure in
Jesus name.
God bless you.
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