The Caldwell Commentaries Podcast
Religion & Spirituality
Luke 10:38-42
Although the two sisters are often contrasted, Martha being the pre-occupied worker-server, and Mary, the pensive worshipper-student (always seen in Scripture at Jesus' feet), this in no way indicates the Lord wants believers in Him to be either one or the other. Personalities and spiritual gifts are different. We are to do what we can with what we have and to do it wholeheartedly. The sisters do not represent an either/or situation. They represent a composite balance. Discipleship is a balance of both Martha and Mary; we should imitate Mary in our worship and Martha in our work! "As the days unfold before me, may this ever be my part, to serve with Martha's busy hands, and love with Mary's heart!"
However, it is apparent from the situation presented in Luke 10:38-42 that there is an appropriate time to work and an appropriate time to worship. Mary chose the good part when Christ visited their Bethany home on this particular occasion! She chose the one needful thing that could never be taken from her - feeding her soul on God's Word, the eternal "Bread of Life"!
This is a serious and very practical lesson for all of us, whether women, men, or young people. It is also good to be able to sometimes laugh at ourselves, and so this is what we could call "a fun lesson". There is a surprise ending that may tell us something about these two sisters (particularly Martha) during the days of the Early Church! Click "like" if you enjoyed this lesson!
This is a subtle matter, for it seems good and right to provide for our own and to attend to household responsibilities, family businesses, our communities, and to our local churches. But it is in these good things that the danger lies, for they can become snares to our hearts if they draw us away from time spent with God in worship and in fellowship through His Word and prayer. We must hold the things of this world with a loose hand, not allowing anything to overtake God in our hearts. Everything else is a blessing for which to be thankful, but we should not let other matters so fill our mind, time, and energy that we trample the holy things. They are dearly purchased if they cause us to put eternity from our thoughts, forget our Bible reading, shorten our prayer lives, or cause us to become careless hearers of the Word of God. "A little earth upon the fire within us will soon make the fire burn low." (R. C. Ryle,
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