Human ambition knows no bounds. The more powerful we are the more powerful we want to be. The thirst for power is never satisfied. Our bank accounts can never be big enough, our possessions never numerous enough, our success and fame never great enough. There is no point of rest for us in our ambition for autonomy because we never arrive. And we never arrive because the endeavour is a delusion. We are chasing a goal that can never be realised. But we are addicted to the prospect and so we go on and on. Every great empire that raised itself up through human history has come crashing down. Every human ambition has ultimately been crushed because every ambition within the human quest for autonomy is essentially deceived. You can chase more wealth and more fame and more power to feed your sense of autonomy, but you will never succeed. The more you gain of what you pursue the further behind you go. The more power you gain apart from God the more enslaved you become. Those who build up their autonomy are only really digging down. Those who seek to move up in the world only dig themselves deeper into the pit of deception. There is no power apart from God. There is no success apart from God. There is no life apart from God. That is the truth of the matter.
Reflect on your own ambitions and whether your life goals are yours or God’s.
Read Ezekiel 30
