Life’s ambition  (2 Tim2^{15 )}

Suppose you were challenged with the question  “What is your ambition in life?” and it was necessary that you responded – would you have an answer ready?

And it is an important question – since life is immeasurably precious  – and so vulnerable. Inexorably, each stage will pass and opportunities can so easily be overlooked.  “Only one life- ‘twill soon be past…”  It is vital that we discover – not just a purpose – but the purpose- that God has for us in our lives.

The only boyhood scene of the life of  Christ ¹– shows that at the age of twelve – He had a clear purpose  – “Did you not know that I must be about My Father’s business?“. 

Some twenty years on in His ministry  –  He tells us why  He had come.

In His perfect sinless life, He showed what God was like ² –  He called men to repentance³ and to personal faith in Himself ⁴.^. With compassion and healing,  He rescued broken lives and established relationships with Himself ⁵. 

He had  “come to seek and to save that which was lost”.⁶;

He had come “not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give His life a ransom for many.” ⁷     On the Cross, He ‘bore our sins’. He’ suffered ‘– He ‘paid the price’, so that – as we receive Him as the Lord of our lives, we are forgiven, and brought into a living relationship with Him – and discover true purpose and ambition.for our own lives.

As the Lord Jesus said “I am come that they might have life– life in all its fulness” ⁸

In the Gospels, the Lord Jesus is pictured not only  as the Good Shepherd  “Who ‘gives His life for the sheep” ⁹  – but also as the Shepherd that 

goes after the sheep which is lost, until He finds it ¹⁰  – and then brings it home..

This is a picture of His persistence of care and His love for such as ourselves –  it is also of assurance of Heaven for the believer when this life is past.

If the reader has never taken the all important step of personal faith -there is a  challenge and a promise encouraging us in our quest.

“ Seek ye the LORD while He may be found, call ye upon Him while He is near:

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and He will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for 

He will abundantly pardon”.  Isa 55^6-7

“And ye shall seek Me, and find Me when ye shall search for Me with all your 

heart.” Jer 29¹³

¹ Luke 2^49-50  ; ²John 1¹⁸; ³Luke 5³²; ⁴John 3¹⁶; ⁵1 John 3⁸; ⁶ Luke 19¹⁰ ; ⁷Matt 20^28-29;

⁸ John 10¹⁰; ⁹ John 10¹¹; ¹⁰ Luke 15⁴;