June 25, 2026
Seek First, Then Move
Someone I care about is at a crossroads. He’s a hard worker, providing for his family, and he’s hit one of those points where he knows he needs to move forward but isn’t sure what the next step is.
I asked him, “Have you prayed about it? Have you asked the Lord about it?”
“No,” he said. “I haven’t yet.”
I told him, “I’m sure God has an opinion about all this, and He wants to work things out for your good — for you and your family. I don’t know what the answer is, but I know that the Lord does, and that He’s willing to direct your steps.”
But if I’m honest, I’m that man too.
I still have a W-2 job, and I run all the business stuff on the side. I honor my work, because that’s where my income comes from, so it gets priority — a really demanding leadership job at a hospital that oftentimes just takes over. I stay late, go in early, take call, and then I’m shut down for a week. There’s a real demand there. So I honor that job as if the Lord’s my boss. I let my work be worship. But outside of it I still have my dreams, the things God’s put on my heart and built me for. I’m just wired to build, so I keep building on the side.
And most of the time when I’m anxious, what I’m really asking the Lord is: what should I let go of? What am I still holding in my hands that I need to give up as lost ground, so I’m only pursuing what He’s actually invited me into?
For most of my life I’ve asked the Lord to direct my steps. It’s in Proverbs, and my wife and I have always just said yes to Him. But recently He challenged me. I was asking for His help on a decision, and He said, “I’m gonna let you choose this one.”
And I said, “Wait — I don’t want to choose it. I want You to guide my steps. You know this.”
And He said, “Yeah, but then you’re gonna hold it against me if the outcome isn’t what you had planned.”
That was a real challenge to me, and I’ve been wrestling with it. It felt like a father correcting me. Am I asking for the Lord’s guidance, and then holding it against Him when my dreams don’t come at the pace I want? I have big dreams — a lot of them sourced from who God says I am. But am I okay with it being next year, or five years from now? With it being delayed because He asked me to disciple some men for a season — which is exactly what happened last year, a whole year where I kept asking, “God, why? This is costing me a lot.” And at the end of that season is right where He met me: “If you want me to direct your steps, are you going to hold it against me?”
Here’s where I’ve landed, at least for now. It’s not that I stop problem-solving — God gave us the ability to problem-solve. It’s that I seek Him first. Seek the kingdom first, and trust that all the rest gets added — in His timing.
And the peace is actually there. The peace that surpasses understanding is accessible — I can seek Him and have peace that He’s going to provide even when I don’t know how, or when, or why. It’s releasing control. So the answer keeps coming back to the same thing: seek Him. Seek the kingdom, and let Him keep directing my steps. That’s what I’m choosing, and then I trust Him on the back side — not waiting like I’m passive, but moving toward the last thing I heard Him say, the next short step He’s inviting me into, while I trust Him with the bigger things and the long horizon.
So, my friend — if you’re the man with the frozen hands and feet, if you know you need to move but you’re not sure of the next step — maybe the first move isn’t to solve it. Maybe it’s to ask Him. Have you prayed about it? Have you asked the Lord? He has an opinion about all of it, and He’s willing to direct your steps.
Seek first the kingdom. Then move.
Matthew 6:33 — “But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.”
Colossians 3:23 — “Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters.”