We’ve been told to put God first. But I’ve never found that to be a particularly helpful framework.

In practice, it can feel like a math problem. How much time and energy goes to God, how much to family, how much to work, etc. Like a pie chart of devotion. Jesus at the top of the list, everything else filling in below.

What if the goal isn’t first place, but the center?

When Jesus says “seek first the kingdom” in Matthew 6:33, I don’t think He’s asking for a bigger slice of your schedule. He’s calling for a total reorientation. Let the kingdom be what everything else orbits around.

Paul puts it this way in Colossians 1:17: in Christ “all things hold together.” He isn’t first among competing priorities. He’s the gravity that gives everything else its proper place.

Christ at the center changes everything. Work, family, ambition. All of it orbits Him. Nothing stands outside of Him.

Maybe the question isn’t how much of your life He gets, but whether everything else is ordered around Him.