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Meltdown in the Kitchen
Luke 10:38-42
What is Jesus saying to Martha? What is He saying to us?
How can Jesus dare defend a woman like Mary who is so oblivious to Martha’s predicament?
What is Martha’s problem? She is serving Jesus,
but she is serving Jesus her way.
Jesus is on His way to Jerusalem. Soon He will die there.
She decided what was best for Jesus.
There are several crucial lessons here:
I. Jesus calls us to His feet for instructions before He sends us out to do his work.
He calls us to be students before He sends us out to be servants. He calls us to be worshippers before He sends us out to be workers.
II. If Satan cannot make us bad, he will make us busy .
Martha’s was so busy doing a good thing that she allowed it to obscure her vision of her goal.
She was too busy to stop and ask Jesus for His perspective and His desire. She was too busy to waste time listening to Him.
It hurts to be told that there is really something more important than what we are so busy doing.
III. God’s will is not always that which seems so obvious.
Martha was busy, but she was busy doing what Jesus did not need or want at that moment.
Jesus is saying to us, in the midst of our service and our giving, stop; stop and ask, “Lord, what do You want? How do You perceive this situation? What do You want me to be doing?”
Could it be that Jesus is calling us by name and saying that we are worried and upset about many things, but there’s one thing that He wants more than any other?
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