他們走路的時候，耶穌進了一個村莊。有一個女人，名叫馬大，接他到自己家裡。 他有一個妹子，名叫馬利亞，在耶穌腳前坐著聽他的道。 馬大伺候的事多，心裡忙亂，就進前來，說：「主啊，我的妹子留下我一個人伺候，你不在意嗎？請吩咐他來幫助我。」 耶穌回答說：「馬大！馬大！你為許多的事思慮煩擾， 但是不可少的只有一件；馬利亞已經選擇那上好的福分，是不能奪去的。」I can see this picture so vividly in my mind. Martha was trying so hard to please Jesus: to do what SHE thought she SHOULD do to please him. And she thought Mary was so wrong in doing nothing. But Jesus told her otherwise. That indeed, Mary has made the right choice and had chosen the most important thing.
Luke 10: 38 - 42
I don't know if Martha has got it at the end. In a way, I see myself in Martha's shoes, trying to do things in our own way to please God, totally missing the point of what God wants us to do. Or getting too busy to do our own things for God that we have missed God himself.
And there are so many earthly thoughts around on what we "SHOULD" do. Need to "unlearned" all that but just to hear what God says and teaches... in a way, I see why Jesus said we need to be like children to get into His kingdom: that's the time before we learned all these worldly thought.
what a long process for unlearning!
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