The Good Portion

Title: The Good Portion

Text: Luke 10:38-42

(Slide) As a disciple we are called to both be with Jesus as well as do for Jesus    

(Slide) “Now as they went on their way, Jesus entered a village. And a woman named Martha welcomed him into her house.  And she had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord's feet and listened to his teaching.  But Martha was distracted with much serving. And she went up to him and said, “Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Tell her then to help me.”  But the Lord answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things, but one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, which will not be taken away from her.”

(Slide) "Now as they went on their way, Jesus entered a village. And a woman named Martha welcomed him into her house."

(Slide) “And she had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet and listened to his teaching.”

(Slide) “But Martha was distracted with much serving.”

(Slide) “And she went up to him [Jesus] and said, “Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to serve alone?  Tell her then to help me.”

(Slide) “But the Lord answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things, but one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, which will not be taken away from her.”

(Slide) “Mary indeed the good portion has chosen, which will not be taken from her.”  

(Slide) "I saw more clearly than ever, that the first great and primary business to which I ought to attend every day was, to have my soul happy in the Lord. The first thing to be concerned about was not, how much I might serve the Lord, how I might glorify the Lord; but how I might get my soul into a happy state, and how my inner man may be nourished.

And yet now, since God has taught me this point, it is as plain to me as anything, that the first thing the child of God has to do morning-by-morning is to obtain food for his inner man."

-George Müller

(Slide) Mary was neglecting what was expected and required in order to do what was unexpected and necessary. 

(Slide) “If you love me you will keep my commandments.” John 14:15

(Slide) Resist hurry. Invite necessity.

(Slide) The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time. It is, on the contrary, born of a vague fear that we are wasting our life. When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else--we are the busiest people in the world. – Eric Hoffer, Bits and Pieces