Thursday, December 13, 2007

Shortcut

Mt. 4:8-10 – ‘…All these I will give you, if you will fall down and worship me…’

We all have ambitions that might be different from each other – some in their career, some in their homes, some in their hobbies, and some in their educations. But in the Christian circle the word ‘ambition’ often is given a bad rep. Truth is our God is a pretty goal oriented God – He set certain goals when he created the universe, the earth, the animals, and mankind – and some say His plans are pretty ambitious. It’s probably true because God does not stand down when it comes to accomplishing His plans, He sought to it that it got accomplished. But the difference with us, human being, is that we are often tempted to take short cut to accomplish our ambition.

No matter who you are, how much money you are making or how smart you are – there are times when you will say to yourselves, ‘There’s actually an easier way to do this…’ With opportunities presented itself, we are even more tempted to take that short cut, thinking that if not now, when is it going to come again?

We think that if we won’t, then it won’t, if she doesn’t then he won’t, if they won’t then things won’t. We like short cut, not only it takes some pain away from our lives, but ultimately because we see accomplishment as an end of itself – we would care less how, when, and where, as long as we’re there then that’s the most important thing. But there is much more important thing to remember other than serving our ambition, and that is serving our God and Him only.