A few years ago, I wrote the book Resgatando a Ambicao [Fiel Editor] and asked for a ransom. I wanted to deflect ambition from many bad motivations and put it into action for the glory of God. I wanted Christians to understand that to understand our ambition, we must understand that we are seeking glory. And where we find glory determines the success of our research. Since I wrote this book, many have suggested that I address God’s plan of ambition in the workplace and in the so-called journal. Below is the third part of a multi-part series on how to rescue ambition in the workplace. You can read Part 1 here and Part 2 here.
Saved from the paralysis of lost dreams
- Did you call it Harvard Business Review [1]? (?adolescence?).
- This is a growing phenomenon among middle-aged workers.
- Who are “exhausted.
- Oppressed and bored.
- “[2] However.
- This includes more than that.
- It is men and women who realize that they will never realize certain dreams; the manager begins to realize that he will never be an executive.
- The technician who feels that his sacrifices for the work have not been successful.
- The artist confronted with the limits of his work.
- Gifts.
- The worker gets bored at the likelihood that this is all.
- “In adolescence.
- ” the magazine summarizes.
- “mediation can be a moment of frustration.
- Confusion.
- And alienation.
- “[3].
Mediation can be established in our vocation as a fog, blurring our vision and obscuring our objectives. “We don’t understand how influential our dreams are until we’re 195,” Tripp says. “Suddenly we feel deceived, deceived, and imprisoned. Are we satisfied no longer satisfied ?. [4]
It’s more than dissatisfaction. It is the death of esteemed ambitions. Mediation is the place where dreams die.
But have you ever thought that Sometimes God’s program for our good involves burying our dreams?
It’s a reality of life that ambitions are denied. In many cases, some of our long-term dreams are just that: dreams. I grew up dreaming it would be a professional ball. Football, baseball, it didn’t matter. . In fact, maybe both, why not? As you can probably see, reality was rarely verified by me at the time, but there was an unexpected event I’ll never forget: I was the pitcher on my high school baseball team against a rival city. If I remember correctly, and I say it humbly, I was awesome. I don’t think statistics support my hypothesis, but when you’re impressive, statistics don’t matter.
At a crucial moment, the best player on the other team entered the batting zone, a boy named Dan Marino. You can remember him as an NFL Hall of Fame pitcher. Well, for me it was just another potential detail of my belt of glory.
When you’re a pitcher, you never want to hear a POOW. This unique sound is a trick for the pitcher to change direction and watch the ball reach the horizon. Dan Marino hit the bullet in such a way that he triggered the alarms at NASA Mission Control in Houston. All I remember is that the center player was still looking for the ball when Dan Marino crossed the finish line. Maybe this bullet is still orbiting the earth.
Here’s the interesting part. For Dan Marino, it was just one more step in a secondary sport against an anonymous opponent on his way to another dream. For me, it’s been a game changer in my sporting career. But dreams take a long time to die when you’re amazing. in your mind, and mine has not faded easily. But over time, did they begin to weaken when I recognized that skills and gifts are necessary for higher levels in sport?And I didn’t have both! The impressive died in the arms of reality.
No one achieves everything they’ve ever wanted or accomplishes everything they’ve undertaken. Our ambitions are pressured by the limits of opportunities, time, resources, or our own physical abilities. There will always be Bill Gates, Warren Buffets and John D. Rockefeller in the world. But not much. And even they can’t do everything they’d like to do. In other words, God’s sovereignty sets certain limits on our lives.
This is something I observed when I am the shepherd of the people: when do we meet these limits, when our ambitions fail completely and we are surrounded by the shipwreck of our dreams. It’s not like we’re changing our theology. It is that our theology is not linked to our unfulfilled desires, we lose sight of God’s omniscience and omnipotence, we cannot relate our circumstances to god’s goodness.
This is where the power of this great decorated verse comes into play: Romans 8. 28. Don’t leave these words on a refrigerator magnet; let them penetrate your soul: “We know that all things contribute to the good of those who love God, of those who are called according to his plan. “
This may be one of the most difficult things we have learned, but denied ambitions can be part of God’s sovereign plan to guide our lives toward their designated ends. God uses our lost dreams to realize his ambition for us. What is this ambition? He describes it in the following verse: “For because of those you knew beforehand, have you also predestined them to fit the image of your Son?”(Verse 29).
Lost dreams are not simply God’s yard to lead us to submission; they are experiences in which we can discover God’s love, his irresistible grace, and the true power of the gospel. Through our frustration, God forms us in the image of Jesus Christ. it refines our ambitions, frees us from selfishness, and teaches us to treasure dreams for their glory. He denies something in us so that we can rejoice in Him in everything.
Linking our circumstances to God’s goodness can make the difference between pleasure and disappointment; it will transform the way you think about the promotion you didn’t get, the failure of the job interview or the sales commission of the year that evaporated. The denial of ambition is not, in the end, a punishment or punishment; it is the funny work of a loving God who opens the way to our walk, who puts fences on the way to make us walk to Him. When God surrounds our ambition, it may certainly seem to restrict our freedom. But fences don’t just restrict; they protect A good fence keeps us on track and prevents us from looking for something good on the edge of a cliff.
Remember, God’s agenda for our ambition does not begin with what we do, but with what we become. This lost dream can be the door to a stronger character, a deeper trust in God, and new experiences of his provision. first step on the road to a form of service that glorifies God you have not yet dreamed of. God keeps denying certain ambitions for greater good in us and through us.
1: Harvard Business Review is a journal written for executives of the highest levels of the company, presents analysis of business management problems and theoretical and practical discussions in all areas of administration.
2: Robert Morrison, Tamara Erickson, Ken Dychtwald, “Managing Middlescence”, Harvard Business Review (March 2006), p. 79.
3: Ibid. , 80
By: Brian Croft. © Practical Shepherding, Inc. Website: practiceshepherding. com. Translated with permission. Source: Workplace savings ambition?PART 3 Original: Workplace Savings Ambition (Part 3). © Department of the faithful. Website: MinisterioFiel. com. br. All rights reserved. Translation: Camila Rebeca Teixeira. Review: André Alosio Oliveira da Silva.