Single Focus

These days, I'm beginning to understand how hard it is to be single-focused. To be consumed with one thing so much so that I don't care about anything else but that. It could be viewed as mean because you are bound to "ignore" or "not care" for other people's views or things. And I think that's why even for Christians who are so focused on one ministry or agenda can be viewed as selfish or mean.

But I don't think that's what apostle Paul means when he says "I consider everything else rubbish/trash/dirt compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord (Phil 3:8)." I thought this verse meant that everything else sucks and has no meaning compared to the knowledge we have in Christ. But I heard a sermon where it's not that everything else is trash, but everything ought not to consume us or we should give too much weight on other things because Christ is that much better!

This is what I desire... this single focus of knowing Christ!