Women in the Bible - Martha

 

   Jesus always knows what is best for us.  There is a time to sit at his feet and a time to work.  Martha chose a time to work instead of listening to Christ.  God must come first in our lives.  We must be willing to sit at his feet every day so we may receive His divine guidance.  Each day has enough problems.  It is imperative to go into your secret place and talk with God each day.  Most important is to listen. 

   “As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him.  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.” Luke 10:38-43

    Life is full of struggles, disappointments, and challenges.  How we prevail during these times of trial takes perseverance, endurance, and most of all hope.   A lesson I’m sure we all have had to learn has to do with hope.  Hope is the knot you hang on to when you're at the end of your rope.  How do you keep on keeping on?  In other words, what does it take to face another day?  How do you put one foot in front of another on the daily road of life?  The older I get, the more I realize how much I can learn from what others have experienced. 

    In Life’s Journey’s According to Mister Rodgers, Mr. Rodgers said,  “Fifty years from now I trust that you’ll look back over your journey and recognize the blessings–great and small—which helped to carry you through, and also realize how other people shared their truth and their light with you and made the trip less lonely.”    

   Billy Graham’s book, Living in God’s Love, is about our society today.  He wrote how many people are looking for satisfaction chemically, in drugs and/or alcohol?  It’s not there.  You’ve already discovered that by seeing other people that are broken down and have ruined their lives.  We see a lot of publicity today about binge drinking.  Perhaps you have a good time for a few minutes, a few hours, then it all comes to destruction and you’re still searching.   Many lives have been destroyed because individuals continued abusing their bodies with alcohol, drugs, etc. until it had taken its toil. The answer to the void in our lives is a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, the Son of God.  

    Martha suffered greatly when her brother Lazarus died. It was only when Christ raised him from the dead, Martha saw and understood the miracle.