Ambition and ploughing and ploughing and hope. Many Christians are suspicious of

ambition and they do have some texts that support them in their concern.

The word in Greek is Arathaya.

Quote, let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind

let each esteem others better than himself,

Philippians 2-3 and KJV.

Quote, for where jealousy and selfish ambition exists,

there's disorder and every evil thing, James 316,

and ASB.

Whenever a young buck shows up eager to conquer the world,

he wants nothing more than to go out there to make a dent.

It may be in the world of finance,

or the world of the arts, or the world of athletics.

And what they all have in common is that they make the

older saints quite nervous about this young man going off the rails.

To be fair, they would also be concerned about a young man whose goal appeared to be

to touch every sluggard base in the Book of Proverbs.

If his apathy is extraordinarily pronounced,

the older sense would have concerns there as well.

But unfortunately, this middle class version

of the Golden Mean frequently results

in acceptable levels of mediocrity across the board.

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