I had a friend when I was in college by the name of Keith. Keith and I used to car-pool together. I studied while he drove, and I am sure he prayed while I drove! Actually Keith would sometimes study while I drove. One morning, when I was driving, I looked at the book he had been studying. It seemed like the entire page was yellowed with highlighter. I asked, “Keith, what are you doing to that poor book?” He said, “I’m highlighting the things that are important.” Is every page like that? He said, “Yes, just about!” I said, Keith, if you highlight everything in that book, you may as well not highlight anything- because the way I see it, you can’t tell what’s really important and what is a little bit important!” When we try to do everything, we really can’t do anything. Again in Philippians 3:13-14:
“Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.”
Priorities are important. Paul didn’t say, “I try to do all these things,” no, he said, “This one thing I do.” In order to be successful in obtaining our goal, its important to concentrate our efforts and keep our goal sharply in focus. I know there’s a thousand things you would like to do in life. There’s a thousand things you feel you ought to do today. But without focusing on the high calling of Jesus Christ, we go from one day to the next without a cohesive purpose. Paul says this one thing I do.
May you accomplish many things today, but don’t leave out keeping your eyes focused on Christ. Have a blessed day.
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