There is something about the drive of anyone with great ambition. That capacity to stay focused on their objective to the cost of everything else. In some ways it’s an admirable quality. In other ways it can be rather disturbing especially when applied to wicked ends.
It says a lot about their appetite that they can remain so focused. By appetite, of course, I refer to a hunger that the individual has that can only be satiated, to a degree, by what the goal they hunger for. Similarly, it’s fascinating what we hunger for and how that can be determined by the mind. I came across the story a parent told me about how their child battered and pestered them constantly by asking for something they wanted. The child did an effective job because their mind was set on something and knew they would never be satisfied until they got it. They managed to badger that poor parent into giving them what they wanted.
It’s not dissimilar to the case of the unjust judge in Luke 18 who is pestered by a woman and eventually nagged to the point of having to give in to the demands for justice. It then leads me to think about what doe we have an appetite for.
What drives us to the point that nothing else will satisfy us until we get what we’re looking for?
For His Name’s Sake
Shalom
C. L. J. Dryden
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