Difference between Vision and Ambition: On our Road of Ambition Vision meet us.

Life is good, they always say but discovering your mission or why you are given life on earth would make it better. Living a life without vision will cause you to perish in your daily life experience and unhappy. It was also referenced in the bible that "Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law happy is he. Proverbs 29:18.

A vision anyway is the ability to see ahead. Every man has a God given vision and it is left for you to find out. Until your work within God's vision for you, it will be probably difficult for you to achieve it. Some people go into a business they never loved to do or had any vision about just because it can yield a lot of income. At this point it will be wise to draw a line between visions and ambition.



Vision is God given while ambition is man made. Vision is from above while ambition has it origin on earth. Ambition is born out of an earthly drive to do it better than others. It springs mostly out of envy and desire for power and self recognition.



These desires run so deep that men fix their eyes on their target and go all out for the catch using all manner of evil imaginations. Men driven by their ambition can kill, destroy nations and cities; pulling others down, just to achieve their goals.



Adolf Hitler a man driven by his own earthy ambition. He wanted to rule the world. He wanted the German nation to rule over the whole world and felt that the Jews were those standing in their way. That brought about the devilish idea of annihilating the Jews. Hitler had an ambition and nothing was too evil for him to do in order to achieve it.



Another typical example is the case of Absalom the son of King David. Absalom had a desire. He wanted so much to become King that he could not even wait for his father David to die. His comportment and handsome appearance gained the people approval. Being pushed on by his own selfish ambition, and the peoples he declared himself King! This was sweet for a while but sudden destruction overtook him. So does everyone who works for his selfish ambition.



A great example of a vision from God is the George Muller case. George Muller a great man of faith had a heavenly dream. He wanted to put a smile on the faces of all orphans left after the war. He gave up everything he had to start the orphanage, living with God and God alone. He never had to go stealing, killing, defrauding or begging for sustenance. He was an ordinary man who had an extraordinary task and he dared to step out in faith. This is a vision from God.



Why do I have to bring these instances, it is because many of us want to get rich quick, thereby going for high income business that cannot put joy in our face. Everybody must not be a lawyer or a banker or a pilot. It is based on God given capabilities. If then you are not working within scope, it is high time you rethink!



"And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healing, helps, government, diversities of tongue." 1 Corinthians 12:28.



When you work according to your God given capabilities you will excel and do exploits in your business endeavor. Sometimes it seems as if God's plan for us does not yield better fruit or is not manifested, it will be good for you to hear what God has to tell you in the book of Habakkuk.



"I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved. And the LORD answered me, and said, write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie; though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry."



God understands that sometimes we think that our vision is not after all true, because it is slow (tarry)! God himself is saying that it will surely come, and it will not tarry.



Don't follow your ambition on earth; that is a far way from success (remember the case of Adolf Hitler, and the pitiful end of Absalom) but rather work on your vision from God, for at the end, it shall speak in your life, business and your entire endeavor; and never lie!

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