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 Beware of Ambition - Chuck Smith

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 Re: Beware of Ambition - Chuck Smith

Thank you for posting this alreadymind, it is good.

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 Re: Beware of Ambition - Chuck Smith

Ambition for ambition's sake is destructive. We work with the secret desire that we will become well known, even famous, for what we are doing or accomplishing. Then when we don't and are not recognized or do not realize our dream, we can become bitter and disillusioned.

Victor Frankl in his book, Man's Search for Meaning, said it well when he said:

“Don't aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long-run—in the long-run, I say!—success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it”


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Victor Frankl said,

“Don't aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long-run—in the long-run, I say!—success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it.”

Can someone forward this to Joel Osteen. He needs to be reminded that we experience success and happiness as a byproduct of forgetting about ourselves and letting God use us to minister to the needs of others. We should not pursue our own happiness directly.

-Daniel

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