Instinct #3—Ambition: A Promised Land Lost
Pastor Writer: Conversations on Reading, Writing, and the Christian Life
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The Importance of Sabbath Rest
Unchecked ambition can lead to an ideological selfish view of yourself then and really a false identity because it leads you down a path that is really very selfish oriented. I think it ends up replacing God with yourself. And you start thinking, you start framing how things should be and what they should be. It elevates you to his place. And you judge the sovereign. You take, you end up being absorbed in this vision you've had and you unable to receive the world and all of its grace in any other form but the one that you've picked.
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