Read: Matthew 6:33-34 Prepare your work outside; get everything ready for yourself in the field, and after that build your house. (Prov. 24:27) Recently I visited the historic sites of Abraham Lincoln’s boyhood in Kentucky and Indiana. The Lincoln family led a hard life on a series of frontier farms. Everyone knows about the log cabins they lived in, but the first job was always felling the trees to clear the fields for planting and splitting rails for fences to protect the crops. First things first; crops before houses. Because it didn’t do much good to have a cabin if there was nothing in it to eat when winter came. Besides offering good advice for early American pioneers, the proverb has some practical wisdom for us. It tells us to make sure we put first things first