Ambition...none but the Lord's!

I just got into this question of ambition on another blog, and it's something that's probably really good to get into here, too....
"When do you put personal ambition ahead of your family? Do you ever? What if your personal ambition is God-related and you know in your heart that's what He has for you, but you don't know when?"

After re-reading the question, I'm starting to wonder whether it was more of a hypothetical one. Still, I don't think personal ambition should ever EVER come before your family, even if it's God-related. The Church (and by that I mean the people who make up the Body of Christ) has brought a lot of crap into the world "in the name of" God. It seems we would rather try to make God fit into our agenda than learning how to fit our life into God's agenda for the salvation of the world. (Give credit to Steve here...your thought, I adopted it! Thanks, by the way!) I don't want to make any decisions that are merely God-related. I want God to be so much a part of my life that it's HIM doing the directing me, and me learning how to follow Him better.

Take Bangor, for instance. God put me here, and is keeping me here. I don't really have all the reasons sorted out, but I'm trusting Him that this is good, and He's assuring me that it is. At the moment I don't have anything fixed to keep me here, no firm job offers, no apartment, no family, no roommate, no visa even, but I'm trusting Him that this will be another step to grow my faith and another opportunity for God to remind me of His faithfulness....I'm stretching my faith muscle, so to speak! (Thanks, Danielle!)