Written by Levi Lusko, a contemporary writer. This is an excerpt from his book “Blessed Are the Spiraling.”
I once came across a jarring, apocryphal story attributed to Warren Buffett. It goes like this: The famed investor was once asked by his pilot how to set priorities. He told the pilot to make a list of the top twenty-five things he wanted out of life and then to arrange them in order of importance. The top five should be those around which he organized his time. The pilot expected Buffett to say that after doing those five, he should focus on the remaining twenty. Instead, he said the remaining twenty should be avoided at all costs because they were not important enough to form the core of his life, yet seductive enough to distract him from what matters most. Wow. The good is the enemy of the best. This is the kind of singular focus you need to have when it comes to following God’s plan for your life. If you created that list today, what would be your number one goal? Would God make the top five? If anything besides God sits in the number one spot in your life, you have identified a god. Augustine was right when he said that there is no such thing as an atheist. Everyone has a master passion or a controlling interest. We all serve somebody or something — whether or not we realize it.
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. [Philippians 3:13-14]
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