Our Ambitious Western Christianity

Our desire to partake in God’s spiritual assignments is good, but let’s take heed that we don’t esteem ourselves higher than God Himself esteems us. As we embrace whatever spiritual assets we possess naturally, we’ll find that they amount to… not much. Our spiritual helplessness is obvious enough, we might even talk about this sometimes, but it’s still difficult for us to actively accept because we want to be experts in our own right. We westerners are accustomed to esteeming ourselves ambitious for God. We enjoy looking at global maps so we can put our fingers on that paper representation of some far-off place and imagine ourselves there, accomplishing some glorious work for Jesus on a long or short-term mission trip. However, as our minds wander deeper into the fog of our imaginary plans, we forget that we are still sitting here, safe and sound in our own home town. Even if money enables us to fly our planes or drive our cars or sail our boats off to some far-off locale, that does not necessarily mean we have landed ourselves on the same spiritual page as Christ. However we will be on the same spiritual page as Christ