Archive for July, 2010

“To understand ambition, we must understand that each of us lives on a quest for glory. Where we find that glory determines the success of our quest,” writes Dave Harvey in Rescuing Ambition.

He goes on to say that “ambition needs to be rescued to help you make connections between what you want and what you do…between present opportunities and future hopes…between your life and God’s glory. These connections rescue us from fruitlessness, pointlessness, purposelessness, and the haunting gray twilight of wasted time and lost opportunity. They remind us that a big God uses small people to steer the course of history—people like you and me.”

A couple weeks back, we asked followers on Twitter to share their ambitions with us. Mike Dickey tweeted, “Stop excuses and stamp out biblical illiteracy!” He followed up with his plan: To read the Bible aloud with others over breakfast once a week.

He continued to share with us:

“This really is an ambition, a ‘grass-roots’ one at this point. I’ve heard or read somewhere, or made it up while mowing the lawn perhaps, “Be what you want/expect others to become.”  So I just started meeting with men for breakfasts each week. In those meetings, we select from the daily specials menu for under $3 plus coffee, but most importantly we set aside time to read the Word out loud with one another, usually reading through one to three chapters per morning. The past couple years of that have been wonderfully rewarding. Our appetite and desire for God’s Word is increasing, and with the knowledge of His Word we are more able to walk and work out our salvation in obedience.

This ambition, of course, lives well beyond this quaint setting. I believe it is God’s desire placed in me that we continue to grow and meet with others, and that His Word will once again find its place of value in our “Christian Culture” – enough to pierce and pervade the “culture-at-large”, all for the glory of God!

Learn more about Rescuing Ambition.