What Do You Want to Be?

We had a wonderful Selah Homecoming 2008!

Thanks for all how came to share in the Word, music, worship, food, fellowship and fun.

As we seek where we are going let us not forget from whence we came and from whom...

Today's Scripture:
We also have as our ambition, whether at home or absent, to be pleasing to him.

2 Corinthians 5:9

What do you want to be when you grow up?" If you are a young person people have been asking you that question since you were barely old enough to talk. Chances are, you answer that question differently now than you did when you were little. There's a good chance you'll have yet another answer by the time you finish high school, college and embark on a career. "What do you want to be when you grown up?" is another way of asking, "What are your ambitions?"

I can share as your pastor that for me this has happened several times along my way and continues to evolve. As a kid I was certain I would be the best Marine Corp officer ever to hit Quantico, later I felt led to law enforcement to protect and serve, then what I found as a good use of my talents a coach and an educator which evolved into being a training manager and eventually a production manager and through all that he called me to my most high call first to preach the Gospel and to pastor.

I think as far as jobs...Ambitions change, and at any one time you have many different ambitions, some of them contradictory. You might want to go to a certain college, get a certain job, marry a certain kind of person, live in a certain kind of place and attend a certain kind of church.

Paul said he had only one ambition: to be pleasing to God. Whatever other ambitions Paul might have had, they all answered to that one overruling ambition. How about you?

Sure, pleasing God is probably on your list of ambitions. But is it at the top?

Do all of your other ambitions answer to that one ambition, or are your spiritual ambitions shaped by other priorities? Put it this way: you, I and others have an ambition to succeed, and we have an ambition to please God. If success is your number one priority, you might try to please God because you hope he will bless you with success, however you define it. If pleasing God is your top priority, then that's going to shape your definition of success.

Selah people' and friends what are your ambitions? Will any of those ambitions change if pleasing God becomes your number one ambition?

"Peace and happiness be with you as you seek where God is leading you."

Your pastor,

Rev Muston (PreacherPatrick)