Seek First the Kingdom

Spoken in the Sermon on the Mount to people with real bills, real crops, and real worries about food and clothing.

Jesus does not say seek only. He says seek first, and attaches a promise: put the kingdom in first place and the necessities of life come along with it. Order is everything. Most anxiety is a symptom of a scrambled sequence.

Give God the first of things as a habit: the first minutes of the morning, the first portion of income, the first say in decisions. Firstness is the whole discipline.