Ambition is a great follower but terrible leader - it’s always meant to stay in the passenger’s seat, not the driver’s seat.

• Harnessing your ambition is a matter of seeing God’s hand at work.

• David wrote this Psalm to encourage the people by remembering how God cares for His own.

• He will always take care of those who find refuge in Him.

• He recalls Israel’s history:

• Vs 8-9 - God called Abe and led him to Canaan.

• Vs 16-17, 23 - He called down famine to get the Israelites to move to Egypt.

• Vs 24 - they were blessed in a foreign land.

• What was happening in Canaan at the same time?

• Infrastructure was being built - houses, roads, cities, farms, etc.

• 430 years later…

• Vs 25 - when the tables have turned, remember that God owns the tables.

• Vs 43-44 - the wealth of the wicked was stored up for the righteous.

• God’s hand was at work all along, and the Israelites had no clue.

• God had to remove them from the Promised Land so others could build it up and prepare it for them to take over (like remodeling a house).

• See God’s hand, harness your ambition.

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