When Paul says ‘above all,’ he’s giving a message we should heed
He didn’t have a second of all or third of all, which I think establishes the point that Paul was really saying above everything else or above all things, this is the priority.
My goal: that ‘other things’ won’t distract me from the main thing
Paul pushed all his suffering to the background as he focused on his first and primary calling. The challenge for us is to do the same.