But the Lord answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are getting worried and upset about too many things. Only one thing is important. Mary has chosen the right thing, and it will never be taken away from her.”
—Luke 10:41–42 (ICB)
Jesus reminds us You are so very busy. But I want you to stop for a minute. Put down the game, hang up the phone, turn off the computer. Spend some time with Me.
Even now your thoughts are racing ahead to today’s plans and problems. But put those thoughts and worries aside. Just think about Me and how much I love you. I know exactly what is going to happen in your life today. Don’t worry. I will give you everything you need to face your day. Please don’t skimp on our time together. The computer and the telephone and the homework will still be there when our time is through.
Jesus concludes… Choose me first, and the blessings that I give you will not be taken away
Psalm 105:4; Luke 10:39-42
Footnotes Luke 10:38-42 Mary and Martha both loved Jesus. On this occasion they were both serving him, but they had different ways of showing their love. Are you so busy doing things for Jesus that you’re not spending any time with him? Jesus did not blame Martha for being concerned about household duties. He was only asking her to set correct priorities. Service to Jesus can degenerate into mere busywork that is totally devoid of devotion to God.
Passage Psalm 105:4 Look to the LORD and his strength; seek his face always.
Footnotes Psalm 105:4-5 If God seems far away, persist in your search for him. God rewards those who sincerely look for him (Hebrews 11:6). Jesus promised, “ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you” (Matthew 7:7). The writer of this psalm suggested a valuable way to find God-become familiar with the way he has helped his people in the past. The Bible records the history of God’s people. In searching its pages, we will discover a loving God who is waiting for us to find him.
Passage Luke 10:39-42 She had a sister called Mary who sat at the Lord’s feet, listening to what he said. But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made. She came to him and asked, “Lord, don’t you care that my sister has left me to do the work by myself? Tell her to help me!”
”Martha, Martha,” the Lord answered, “you are worried and upset about many things, but few things are needed-or indeed only one. Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her.
Footnotes Luke 10:38-42 Mary and Martha both loved Jesus. On this occasion they were both serving him, but they had different ways of showing their love. Are you so busy doing things for Jesus that you’re not spending any time with him? Jesus did not blame Martha for being concerned about household duties. He was only asking her to set correct priorities. Service to Jesus can degenerate into mere busywork that is totally devoid of devotion to God.
THE WORLD…we see history
Theodore Roosevelt JR. October 27th, 1858- was an American statesman, Conservationist, Naturalist, Historian and Writer, who served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901-1909. ***
Just weeks before being thrust into the Presidency by the assassination of William McKinley, said, “A very large number of people tend to forget, that the teachings of the Bible are so interwoven and entwined with our whole civic and social life, that it would be literally impossible for us to figure to ourselves what that life would be, if these teachings were removed.
“In regard to this Great Book,” wrote Abraham Lincoln in a letter dated September 7, 1864, “I have but to say it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this Book.”
THE WORLD…we see history
- Vice President Theodore Roosevelt, addressing the Long Island Bible Society just weeks before being thrust into the presidency by the assassination of William McKinley, said, “A very large number of people tend to forget that the teachings of the Bible are so interwoven and entwined with our whole civic and social life that it would be literally—I do not mean figuratively, I mean literally—impossible for us to figure to ourselves what that life would be if these teachings were removed.”8
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (/ˈroʊzəvɛlt/ ROH-zə-velt;[b] October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919), often referred to as Teddy Roosevelt or his initials T. R., was an American statesman, conservationist, naturalist, historian, and writer, who served as the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909. He previously served as 33rd governor of New York from 1899 to 1900 and the 25th vice president of the United States from March to September 1901. Wikipedia - A few decades later, another president bearing the same surname, President Franklin Roosevelt said, “We cannot read the history of our rise and development as a Nation without reckoning with the place the Bible has occupied in shaping the advances of the Republic.” He was an American politician who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. A member of the Democratic Party, he won a record four presidential elections and became a central figure in world events during the first half of the 20th century. Wikipedia.
The Bible is a lamp to our feet and a light to our path; when it burns low, our culture grows dark. The best way to keep America strong is to know her history, to honor her roots, to preserve her legacy, and to cherish the eternal God who, in His providence, placed this continent between two shimmering seas, and who, in His goodness, provided a Book that became her moral and intellectual foundation: the Holy Bible.