“Adam, where are you?”

Great question, and one we need to answer honestly.

On the 18th January this year (2025) I had my very own, “Adam, where are you moment”.

I complained, “Lord, I feel overwhelmed. The simplicity and joy has gone from my work.”

I knew my location, and it was called “anxious and driven”.

I then gushed a bit about how much I wanted to serve the people of God and His Kingdom, provide security for my family, courting favour with the King.

Father smiles but doesn’t fall for that stuff.

His answer caught me by surprise.

He knows how to rip the fig leaves off!

“The problem is not how much work you have to do, and the volume of opportunities you can chase, it’s your stubbornness!”

Ambition had hooked my heart. I’d allowed the social media circus to convince me I should be bigger, better, faster, and it had sucked the air from my creative lungs.

Thanks, Pop, anything else you’d like to add to that?

“Yes, you need to let go of this desire to be SOMEONE IMPORTANT.”

I’ve learned not to argue.

The beauty of God is He will never leave you hanging. If you keep your ear inclined He’ll locate you with precision, then hand you a map to find your way home.

The map He handed to me was:

“Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands, just as we told you,” (1 Thessalonians 4:11 NIV)

Initially, it was the reframing of ambition that landed with me.

Internally, I plugged those coordinates into my spirit.

Destination, “a quiet life.”

I now just needed the directions to get there, and that’s what I’ll be speaking about next week.