Guidance is primarily moral

John White points out that when it comes to guidance the big questions are actually moral rather than geographical:

. . . you must grasp two things about the nature of divine guidance: First, God has an overall goal for your life; second, God’s goal is a moral goal. His plan for you has less to do with geography than with ethics. His supreme object is to make you like his Son (Rom. 8:29). Whether the process of making what he wants of you involves travel, money, joy, pain or whatever is secondary. His goal is to make you holy, and the kind of guidance he will give you will reflect this. . . . God is less worried about whether I make a mistake about the geography than about the morality. It matters less that I wind up in the wrong city than that I make a wrong moral choice.

We ought to be most concerned about those things that God has been most clear about in his word. If we marry is not as big an issue as whether we honour God in singleness or marriage. Who we marry is not as big an issue as the fact that a Christian must only marries someone who shares their love for God. Where we live is not as big an issue as being a witness wherever we end up. What job we take is not as big an issue as seeking to honour God is how we work. It is more important that we seek to obey God in the many areas where he has given us clear principles than figuring out specific guidance on things where the Bible remains silent.