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Ambition
Porter:
You do know that if God wanted to He could in an instant cause you to have ambition to not only want the promotion, but also through some means to give you that promotion? I think it's important that YOU think you're lazy.
Sometimes it's real tough for me to trust God when I find myself in similar situations as you and I don't always come shining through. It could be one of them "training tactics" God uses to get us to see something about ourselves that needs changing, like learning to trust that He knows what He is doing and is always in complete control no matter what it seems like.
Don't forget Pharaoh and then Israel in the desert, how God hardened their hearts.
Rom 9:15 For He tells Moses: I will show mercy to whom I show mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.
Rom 9:16 So then it does not depend on human will or effort, but on God who shows mercy.
Rom 9:17 For the Scripture tells Pharaoh: For this reason I raised you up: so that I may display My power in you, and that My name may be proclaimed in all the earth.
Rom 9:18 So then, He shows mercy to whom He wills, and He hardens whom He wills.
Heb 3:7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: Today, if you hear His voice,
Heb 3:8 do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day of testing in the desert,
Heb 3:9 where your fathers tested Me, tried Me, and saw My works
Heb 3:10 for 40 years. Therefore I was provoked with this generation and said, "They always go astray in their hearts, and they have not known My ways."
Heb 3:11 So I swore in My anger, "They will not enter My rest."
Heb 3:12 Watch out, brothers, so that there won't be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart that departs from the living God.
lareli:
Thanks Porter
Ya I actually accepted the job a few weeks ago. I start next week and I've been having second thoughts... and third, fourth and fifth thoughts about it.
I generally feel that when it comes to my job Ive lacked ambition and so part of the reason I accepted was to push myself to grow. One of the reasons I've lacked ambition perhaps, was because when I started in this job I was 22 years old newly married with a kid. The only purpose for my having a job was to provide. I was a scared kid but I was also grateful to God for giving me the security that I've had for the past 15 years. My survival instincts at that time told me to keep my mouth closed, do a good job, and dont rock the boat, don't move! Stay right here where it's secure and safe! Somewhere along the line those initial survival instincts turned into maybe a lazy, lack of motivation and/or ambition to grow.
Over the years I've turned down promotions mostly because I loathe the thought of supervising anyone. I just do not like the idea of being anyone's "boss" or being "over" anyone. The financial aspect was not a motive except for maybe I feel I'm slightly overpaid for my skill set currently and the new position will help me to feel that my effort and work load more appropriately match my income. I'll (God willing) feel more like I'm earning my wages rather than just being given my particular wage due to how long I've been with this same job. I know that younger guys could come in and do my same job and get paid about 2/3 what I make to do the same job.
Anyways at the time I accepted the offer it felt right. But ever since then I've felt kinda like I've just jumped off a cliff and doomed myself.. man I wish God would give me more confidence and take away my anxiety.. I'm sure after a couple weeks at the new job I'll look back and wonder why I was so worried.
lostANDfound:
Maybe this is yet another way that we are different from the world. The world says we should have high career ambitions and seek power. You clearly don't. That doesn't make you weak or wrong. Maybe you have much higher ambitions that only your under-the-radar job can facilitate.
Matt 6:20. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in or steal.
Dennis Vogel:
--- Quote ---Dennis you mentioned being ambitious to be creative.. can that apply to ones job? Let's say the financial aspect of the job is not a promotion. But the knowledge, skill set and experience gained from the new position is the promotion.
--- End quote ---
This all revolves around ego/vanity. I find it hard to work when I'm doing it for recognition as well as money. But we have to bury the old us/ego.
lareli:
--- Quote from: Dennis Vogel on June 30, 2017, 09:31:42 AM ---
--- Quote ---Dennis you mentioned being ambitious to be creative.. can that apply to ones job? Let's say the financial aspect of the job is not a promotion. But the knowledge, skill set and experience gained from the new position is the promotion.
--- End quote ---
This all revolves around ego/vanity. I find it hard to work when I'm doing it for recognition as well as money. But we have to bury the old us/ego.
--- End quote ---
This can revolve around ego/vanity. Gaining knowledge, skills and experience.. isn't that just life? Where do you see "recognition seeking" in these things?
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