Having worked in family ministry for over 25 years, I now believe one of the greatest threats to family life and marital satisfaction is…
Ambition.
Selfish ambition pulverizes our priorities, makes us neglect what brings us the most happiness, and rots our life from the core.
How families would be blessed if we applied just six words from the apostle Paul: “Do nothing out of selfish ambition…” (Philippians 2:3).
Nothing.
One of the most startling facts of Jesus’ life concerns the time between the holidays of Christmas and Easter. We celebrate Jesus’ birth, then celebrate his death and resurrection, but thirty years separated Jesus’ birth from the start of a three-year public ministry. We know almost nothing about ninety percent of Jesus’ life on earth. That, in itself, is a sermon.
Jesus lived a perfectly obedient life and yet ninety percent of that life was spent outside the radar of “public” ministry. He was a brother, a son, and a friend for three decades. He was a public rabbi for three years.
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