Read Luke 10:38-42 SOAP Luke 10:41-42
This specific passage has blessed me so much because it is so relevant to me personally, and to our church right now. The original language of Martha's "distracted with much serving" means, "dragging all around." So she was being unnecessarily detailed and elaborate. How often does this happen in ministry where we focus on all the wrong things? The most important thing is sitting at Jesus' feet to learn from Him.
Warren Wiersbe says it best:
"Consider
Martha’s situation. She received Jesus into her home and then neglected Him
as she prepared an elaborate meal that He did not need! Certainly a meal
was in order, but what we do with Christ is far more important than what
we do for Christ. Again, it is not an either/or situation; it is a
matter of balance.
The key is to have the right
priorities: Jesus Christ first, then others, then ourselves. It is vitally
important that we spend time “at the feet of Jesus” every single day, letting
Him share His Word with us. The most important part of the Christian life is
the part that only God sees. Unless we meet Christ personally and privately
each day, we will soon end up like Martha: busy but not blessed."
Good Morning Girls
ReplyDeleteI think today is speaking to all of us as we go about doing Kingdom work. But I must confess that these scriptures have spoken to me before when I realize that as I worked in the ministry on different levels through out the years that I had become Martha. Yes, trouble much about the work there was to do, and not enough laborers to it. I felt that I had to work that much harder to get it all completed or it wouldn’t get done. At times hard work is not a bad thing, but when Mary leaves your life and you lose your learning time, your worship time with the Lord then it becomes a huge problem. Because you are so focus on working on everything, you fail to see you’re getting farther and farther away from Him and your Ministry work becomes almost a burden and not the joy you once possess. Thankfully God loved me enough to let it all become clear to me what was happening and I one day I just stopped what I was doing and began my search for that close connection to the Lord that I once had. Maybe I am just speaking about me, maybe not. I do know there has to be a little of both of these women in our lives as we work for God’s kingdom. Martha is a mover and shaker so to speak, she gets things done and Mary is the one who sits at the feet of Jesus and learns about him as Lord of her life and worships Him as her Savior. My mission was to figure out how to become both and enjoy where God has placed me at this time in my life and maybe I’m not all the way there yet but I am striving to be.
Have a blessed day everyone!!