Elon Musk, Simone Biles, Dwayne ‘The Rock, Johnson, Mulan, Tony Stark. What do all of these people have in common? Ambition. They have this drive to be great. In the gospel for this Sunday, James and John, the Sons of Thunder, have ambition. All they want to do is sit on Jesus’s right and left and be the most awesome. And the crazy thing is Jesus doesn’t take that away from them. Jesus wants all of the apostles; he wants us to have ambition for him. But many times we have drive, we have ambition for the wrong things, whether it’s with our job, sports, or whatever it might be.
But Jesus wants us to have that ambition, that drive for him. So my invitation this Sunday and for the rest of the week is to let Jesus purify our ambition, purify our drive for him. This is Spirit Juice. Peace.
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