"Brethren, I do not consider that I have made it my own; but one thing I do, forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus(Phillipians 3:13-14)."

       Keep your eyes on the prize. I could have sworn I already talked about the motivational speaker and his presentation about `keeping your eyes on the prize.' He said that you should get around every obstacle any way you are able. Over it, under it, through it, however you can. Get a shovel, because your eyes are on the prize.
       But this passage doesn't stop there. It also says don't look back. Don't get distracted.
       I've seen and heard ads about Chef Jimmy, the sandwich chef who is so dedicated to his job that he lets everything else go - he lets everything else fall apart. "Did I forget to turn off the stove?" he asks someone at the store. "No," one of the employees say, but then his house blows up because he forgot to turn off the stove there. He was so dedicated to his job that he forgot about his own stuff.
       In the radio ads you hear him making a sandwich while being surrounded by exotic dancers who perform for him. Chef Jimmy just keeps on making sandwiches. When his co-workers see a fork in the road, where he could choose to drive to a nude beach or a place where they sell sandwich ingredients, Chef Jimmy drives to the place with the sandwich ingredients. He's like a horse with blinders on, seeing only the road ahead.
       As Christians, we need to be more like Chef Jimmy - only with a fixation on God instead of a fixation on sandwiches. Hell or high water, God needs to be the focal point in our lives. If we have to choose between God's will and a million dollars, a stunning person of the opposite sex, a television spot, a recording contract or whatever, we need to choose God's will.