EMPOWERING LIVES WITH PURPOSE:
We all know that feeling when we expect someone else should be helping us with “pulling the load”, and our expectations are not met… I suspect that is what Martha felt as Mary sat at the feet of Jesus with so much work that needed to get done… I think we can relate as work is heaped upon us, and we have so much to prepare for.
What started out as joy turned sour. The story is in Luke 10:38-42.
We live in this world and we concern ourselves with festivities, food, clothing, homes, family, jobs, studies and gifts; it all weighs us down. But we also live in a world of the Spirit, where we concern ourselves with our relationship with God, and that is what elevates us, or at least I hope it does.
To get our service and our own expectations right, we need to get our priorities right and always look to God first, each and every day. He will sustain us all.
We need to allow Jesus to minister to us before we go out to minister to others, and not get all caught up in ourselves and our preparations.
We love God first with all our hearts before we can go out and love our neighbor as ourselves.
When we keep our priorities in line with God’s priorities and place God first, we will find that we don’t need to rely on others very much. We will see that God enables us to do what needs to be done with joy and satisfaction, even during heavy workloads of prepping and preparing things.
When we are turned upside down and feel overworked and unappreciated, remember to look to God and His priorities for us. They may be different than yours at the time. But God enables the work to get done with the proper balance. May we all try harder to look to Him with our expectations and seek Him and His will, not that of others or worrying what they are or aren’t doing to help