Cliff Sims

Like, man, wow, that's amazing.

Wow, you made it, you know?

And it's not that ambition is bad or that wanting to achieve things or wanting to do things of significance is bad, but there has to be a check on that.

And the check is,

in my life is my relationship with God.

So the thing that a relationship with God does for you is it is an ever-present reminder that you are not the most powerful, you are not the most important, there is a higher authority than you are, and it forces you to be subservient to something other than yourself.

Everything in this life that most people go through their day doing is an attempt to get for themselves more comfort, more money,

more power, more fame, more and more for me, build myself up.

And everything about the Christian faith says, I'm not great, He's great.

I'm not important, He's important.

And so if you're in a daily, if you have a daily, if you have a relationship with God and you are reminded of those things daily, it helps you keep

these other things in check, your ambitions in the proper place, the importance you put on your work is in the proper place.

That's what I was missing, and I would justify it any number of ways.

I don't have time to be in the Bible today.

I've got 46 briefings that I gotta get ready for.

The president of the United States is depending on me to come in here and be able to talk with authority about these issues.

I don't have time for that right now, but thankfully I did that some other time.

I've got that filed away somewhere.

And I wouldn't necessarily make a conscious decision so often like that, but over time, that's what your actions say.

That's where I kind of lost,