As Tiffany and I prepared for a segment on our weekly radio program, Girl Talk, the verse the LORD placed on our hearts carried the same reference. He had told us separately, in the whispers of our quiet time, a comforting passage in Matthew.
Matthew 6:33 (English Standard Version)
But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
And although the LORD chases after us with such passion, Scripture clearly points to our positioning for response. After all, we talk about having a relationship with Jesus—but doesn’t that also extend to possibly the simplest conceptual picture: the phone ringing both ways?
Surely, the LORD wants us to pursue Him as He pursues us. Not because He needs it, but because pursuing Him holds the promise of goodness for ourselves too. Everything in Scripture He calls us to do—in abstaining or pursuing, in pausing or running, in waiting or moving, in letting go or picking up—at the root of it all, He has our best intentions at heart. There is no fakeness or hidden agenda behind the heart of our God.
How beautiful a picture for Him to paint: that reflecting His glory not only brings Him honor and praise that is clearly earned, but that we rest with peace and gladness in the warmth of His light being absorbed in us—like sitting in the cool grass on a warm sunny day.
We were purposefully and skillfully designed to crave His presence. We were anchored to succeed and to reside in all of our callings with a centered core founded on the Rock. Our greatest work in this life is completed not by anything we can do on our own, but by His working Spirit in us. We can hold to a foundational truth—that all glory goes to the LORD by the work of our hands when we seek Him first to direct the goodness of that work in the first place.
I can stand on the promise that if I am obedient to whatever He calls of me this day, it will be the best outcome for myself and others, because He designed the work of my hands for this very day.
I can rest knowing that His timing in placing the working seed in the ground will flourish. It will bloom into something marvelously delicious—containing good fruit in stewarding His direction of discipline and faithfulness, reaping and sowing day after day in the small, seemingly mundane moments.
He showed me we all crave those big Goliath wins—but David didn’t wake up that morning knowing he was going to save Israel and set the stage as a great king, having his name forever penned in the Bible as a man after God’s own heart. He woke up that day with a submission to the LORD’s will of caring for his father and brothers. A nobody to society, he obeyed a generic request—and God honored that by positioning David for abundantly more. David was dangerous to the enemy because no task was too small if God called him to it. Your Goliath moments will show up when you are faithful with the little things.
I can know that though I might not see the light at the end of the tunnel yet, or hear the mean world screaming at me, or feel the very real and scary fears that make me curl on the floor—He will still provide my every need. I cannot lead this life with physical eyes, but must once again first pursue the Kingdom of the LORD. Walk by faith and not by sight.
When I wake up in the morning and ask the God of all Heaven and Earth—the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the Creator who breathed His own breath into me—how to start my day, I can know that surrendering my positioning to be moved, called, and serving others in whatever capacity will bring honor to God while simultaneously being for my own good.
So to those of us waiting for the pressure to let off…
To those of us dog‑paddling to stay above water…
To those of us who ask, Is there really more to this life?
To those of us feeling buried behind the mundane and unknown, nobodies to society…
To those afraid of missing that next promotion…
To those trying to balance on the ball—finding themselves in a position so complex that we think one move would throw the whole thing off…
To those waking from their slumber…
To those who are waning from the flesh being crucified once again…
Take heart. He is positioning you for your callings. And the timing may not look like what we think it is going to look like. It might not play out how we envision or expect it. It may not be how you want it, or when you want it…but the Goliath moments in your life—you just might not see those coming yet. When we really come to the point in our lives where we freely release the false pretense that we know what is best or that we have control, or step down from our pride that we ourselves could ever compare to the best that He is willing to give us, it becomes much easier to crave that next direction—that next simple step of obedience that looks so small.
He wants to do so much more in your life than you can think or imagine. He isn’t done doing miracles or pulling out somebody from a society‑viewed nobody. His character in itself invokes creativity. He is faithful to you. Let Him have the best plan for your life unfold. You have free will, but you have to call Him and say, “Please direct me.” Seek and you shall find.
He’s preparing the soil for your next landing spot. He’s teaching you something in this season for the next one—or using something you picked up in the past to use as a tool for someone else today.
Your calling in life isn’t mundane at all. You serve a purposeful God. He turns things for His glory into abundant gifts back to us in so many different ways we cannot fathom. So call on the LORD today and just ask His direction for the next right thing. His Spirit is going to position you. It’s a promise.
Matthew 6:28–30 (NIV)
“And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will He not much more clothe you—you of little faith?”
Zechariah 4:6 (NIV)
So he said to me, “This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel: ‘Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says the LORD Almighty.”
Rachel Redlin is a columnist, author, journalist, and award-winning radio host. She lives in Northwest Kansas with her husband and five children, where she writes about faith, food, and the simple everyday life. Want to read more or contact us? You can subscribe to the FREE newsletter at www.simplybloominggrace.com
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