Rescuing Ambition

by Dave Harvey

He understands our struggles. Christ “in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin” (Heb. 4:15). We’re intentionally snubbed? Christ knows what it’s like. People ignore our contribution? Christ understands. We have to deal with someone who must have been absent when God dispensed the courtesy and respect gene? Christ experienced the same temptations that boil up within us. Rejection, people who disappoint, forgotten efforts—he was tempted in every way we are, “yet without sin.” Christ also empowers us to do what he calls us to do. We’ll be rejected, misunderstood, mistreated simply because of our association with him. Being ambitious for the glory of God isn’t an easy thing. We’ll face opposition from the fallen world around us and, certainly, from the remaining sin in our hearts. But Christ has come to live in and through us by the Holy Spirit. We pursue the glory of One who understands our weaknesses and has made provision for them.