Every human being needs to have ambition. A person who has no ambition is a helpless and hopeless individual. Ambition creates energy. Sometimes I learn great lessons from the craziest places. One time I was going through a season of just feeling lethargic. It was years ago and a silly movie was on called, "Wayne's World." In the movie, Wayne, and his sidekick, Garth, were riding in a car when Wayne says, concerning feeling tired, "I thought I had mono, but come to find out, I was just bored." Mono is a viral infection where a person feels very tired all the time. It has also been called, "Chronic Fatigue Syndrome." In the scene, Wayne said that he was so tired that he thought he had this infection, but his fatigue was coming from boredom!
 
So we need ambition! But our Scripture provides a balance, and the balance is that our ambitions need proper limitations, and need to be controlled. If your ambitions are too high then you are going to have to learn to live with constant frustration and disappointment. We want ambitions that stretch us, and stretch our faith, but not into the realm of absurdity. It would stretch me and my faith to want to go to Africa, but it would be ludicrous for me to plan to go to Pluto. Try to find the balance in your ambitions.
 
Let's leave the desire to be king of the mountain to the One to Whom it rightly belongs-Jesus! Sometimes we are just doing good to get our bills paid!