For what?

The amassing of wealth.  Building security.  Creating comfort.  Getting a name. Glory for one's self.  Getting a good return.  Living in comfort.  Creating the world we always wanted.  Spending one's self on behalf of the King.  Creating Jobs. Using the talents we have been given to get a good return.

What is our ambition? With what are we wrapped?  What do we want in this short life?  What to consume our years?

Questions swirl.  Frustrations ebb and flow.  Those lead to a breaking point and once again we are at the cross.  From where does our hope come from.

For God has consigned all to disobedience, that he may have mercy on all.
Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God!  How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways! 
For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor? Or who has given a gift to him that he might be repaid?
For from him and through him and to him are all things.  To him be glory forever, Amen.
...Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect...
I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think... For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ... Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us...
Let love be genuine.  Abhor what is evil;  hold fast to what is good.  Love one another with brotherly affection.  Outdo one another in showing honor.  Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord. 
Romans 11

At the cross we are equal.  All desperate.  All dead in our transgressions.
Because of the new life in Christ we are all equal.  All with gifts. 
Why do hands and feet and heads and ears squabble?  Why do we strive to exalt ourselves as if we needed no other and were made for no other.
Forgive us Lord.  Forgive me Lord. 
By grace Lord make our love genuine.
Teach us to hate evil with the same hatred you have for it.
Teach us to outdo each other in honor.
Living in harmony with one another.

Be constant in prayer.

Teach us to pursue a holy ambition.  Spurring each other on in good works to you. Spending ourselves for the King and his Kingdom.  There will be our greatest Joy:  Jesus our Risen Saviour!
 Only you!

All only for your Glory!