Purpose & Calling
My schedule is full and God ends up last in it. How do I actually put him first without quitting my whole life?
“Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways. Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.”
Haggai spoke to people who had returned from exile and got busy panelling their own houses while the temple sat unfinished. His observation is economic rather than moralising: they are working hard and getting nowhere, with wages disappearing as fast as they earn them. He invites them to look honestly at the results of their arrangement before they defend it to him.
“But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.”
Jesus says this in the Sermon on the Mount to listeners with genuine reason to worry about food and clothing, not to comfortable people fussing over priorities. The instruction concerns order rather than quantity: what gets sought first. He does not ask them to care less about their needs. He asks them to put those needs behind something larger and watch what follows.
A path forward
Look at your calendar and your bank statement for the last month and be honest about what they say came first. Those two documents are more accurate than your intentions.
Fix one immovable slot this week for prayer and scripture, twenty minutes at the same time daily, and treat it like a meeting you are not permitted to cancel.
Cut one genuinely optional commitment this month. Putting God first usually requires putting something else down rather than squeezing him into the gaps.
Closing verse
“And Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things: But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.”
- Luke 10:41-42
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