The story of Mary and Martha is one of those well known stories that we might be tempted to take for granted. When Jesus went to visit his friends Martha was all in a tizzy. She bustled about cleaning, cooking, and preparing. Everything that she did was good; it all needed to be done. Everything she did was good and necessary.
While Martha was busy scurrying about her sister Mary sat quietly at Jesus’ feet, listening to Him. Martha, like most of us would, basically asked Jesus to tell Mary to get to work, but Jesus told her that Mary chose the good thing, to listen to Him.
We all have very busy lives. There is so much that needs to be done and sadly we can also busy ourselves at busy things that don’t need to be done. Far too often we forget the good part about sitting at Jesus’ feet.
May we remember that when we get “encumbered about with much serving” that we never forget the good part of sitting at Jesus feet. Even more; may we never get so encumbered about with the unnecessary part that we forget about the “good part.”
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