Are you focused on your promotion or on exalting Jesus? Is your ambition more for yourself, or for Jesus?

Life is full of choices. We make choices every day of our lives. You can make bad choices or you can make good choices. Your choices matter. Some choices have life-changing consequences.

‘Worry,’ as Corrie ten Boom wrote, ‘does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.’ No one goes through life without facing problems, battles and causes for worry.

As in any battle, we have a ‘choice’ about how we respond. Especially when we are involved in a confrontation with a close friend or family member, it is vital that we turn to God for comfort and strength. 

This is the choice you have to make as you face the worries, battles and disappointments of life. Do you allow them to overwhelm you, or do you turn to the Lord, cast your burdens on him and then trust in him?

Many people in the world today are driven to become greater, more important, more highly promoted or better qualified. These are not all bad aims in themselves, but our daily choices will be swayed by these ambitions. You have to choose how you live your life. 

Those of us who follow Jesus must echo this in our hearts, ‘He must become greater; I must become less’ Ultimately, the focus is not on ourselves – it is always on Jesus. Our ambition must always be to point people to Jesus.

‘Whoever accepts and trusts the Son gets in on everything, life complete and forever! 
Worshipping and serving God is the way to a fulfilling life. Don’t waste your life chasing after false ‘gods’.In response to all that the Lord has done for us we are also called ‘to love the Lord’

You have to make a choice. You cannot just drift. Many people just drift through life, never making a conscious decision. Good leaders, leads by example. They makes a deliberate, personal choice to worship and serve the Lord. 

Joshua 24:15

‘But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.’