Ambition and Greedy-malcontent are neighbors. There is a line, a fence between their domains and that line is motive.
Where the Lord leads, the ambitious follow and they will go until He says otherwise. They go without when He allows (Phil 4:12) and they expand their tents when He says (Is 54). Like Paul they trust and love their Lord in abundance and in famine.
The greedy malcontent will go where they please in spite of the Lord. They will covet, lust and be envious of their neighbor. They, like Nathan's proverb will take the lamb from him who has one (2 Sam 12) even though they have one hundred.
Both seek a higher station in life but the ambitious focuses on the Lord and His glory. The greedy heart is driven solely by self-interest. It is okay to want and strive for more. But keep an ear open or else you will not hear the voice saying, “This is the way to go,l walk in it” (Is 30:21.) A.W. Tozer said "It is not what a man does that determines whether his work is sacred or secular, it is why he does it. The motive is everything."
Where the Lord leads, the ambitious follow and they will go until He says otherwise. They go without when He allows (Phil 4:12) and they expand their tents when He says (Is 54). Like Paul they trust and love their Lord in abundance and in famine.
The greedy malcontent will go where they please in spite of the Lord. They will covet, lust and be envious of their neighbor. They, like Nathan's proverb will take the lamb from him who has one (2 Sam 12) even though they have one hundred.
Both seek a higher station in life but the ambitious focuses on the Lord and His glory. The greedy heart is driven solely by self-interest. It is okay to want and strive for more. But keep an ear open or else you will not hear the voice saying, “This is the way to go,l walk in it” (Is 30:21.) A.W. Tozer said "It is not what a man does that determines whether his work is sacred or secular, it is why he does it. The motive is everything."
