“Threat #6: BUSYNESS (Luke 10:38-42)” | 2/14/2021
Luke 10:38-42 | 2/14/21 | Will DuVal
Good morning! Happy Valentine’s Day. It’s appropriate, because I want to talk to you this morning about LOVE. I know the bulletin says we’re discussing “BUSYNESS”, but this sermon is really about love.
Speaking of love, before I forget, if you’re new to West Hills this morning, we want to WELCOME you; I’m Will DuVal, lead pastor, we’re SO glad you’re here, and we would LOVE to connect with you, at the Info Bar…
But this morning is our penultimate Sunday in our “Church Under Fire” series, addressing the 7 greatest threats to the church today. And I mentioned last week that these first 6 threats form contrasting pairs; as Christians, we live in tension between two dangerous extremes. Take KNOWLEDGE - On the one hand, we don’t want to be IGNORANT - Jesus prayed in John 17 that we would be “sanctified in the truth of God’s word” - but on the other hand, we don’t want to fall prey to the trap of INTELLECTUALISM either; confusing knowledge ABOUT God with knowing God. Or take DOGMATISM - we must be absolutely uncompromising when it comes to the non-negotiables of the Christian faith; but we ALSO need to be able to distinguish between a “core” issue and a “second-tier” or even “THIRD-tier” issue, and avoid being DIVISIVE in matters where believers can have genuine differences of opinions. Or take ACTIVITY. Last week, in the Beatitudes of Matthew ch5, Jesus warned us against under-activity, “comfortable Christianity”, and called us to take up our cross and follow him. But this morning in Luke ch.10, he’s going to caution us against OVER-activity; the threat of BUSYNESS.
Busyness - “the quality or condition of being overly busy.
lively but meaningless activity.”
See if this resonates with any of you: Wake up by 6:00, to do a quick devotional while you get the coffee going, so you can make it to the gym by 6:40 and get a quick workout in, then get back home in time to shower, get dressed, get the kids breakfast AND lunch packed, and dropped off at school by 8:10, so that YOU can get to the office by 8:30. Spend most of the morning responding to your inbox and voicemail and putting out unexpected fires, which pushes the 5 things from your MORNING to-do list to the afternoon, and means you take a “working lunch” to catch up. Call your husband to see if HE can pick up the kids from after-school sports practice so you can work an extra half hour to finish up; as a trade-off, you’ll run by the store and pick up groceries for dinner. But you realize en route that you need to swing by the bank too, and you’ve gotta pick up the dry cleaning before your husband’s big meeting tomorrow, so you grab carry-out instead. Over dinner, you barely get to ask the kids about their busy days before they’re asking to be excused to go finish their homework or play, and by the time you get the dishes cleared, it’s nearly time to sign on for virtual life group. 75 minutes later, you let the dog out, check in on the kids before bed, and go through your own bedtime ritual before collapsing in bed, exhausted, but assuring yourself that at least tomorrow SHOULD be a lighter day.
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Now, that’s a REALLY busy day. I hope that’s not TYPICAL, for too many of you here this morning. Perhaps the specifics differ for you; change “go to work” to “teach home school”; swap out “bank and dry cleaning” for “Target and gas station”, but the point still remains: we are BUSY people. And you know how I know that BUSYNESS is our societal norm? Because those of you who AREN’T all that busy, who DIDN’T resonate with my little story so much; what did you feel while I was TELLING it? Did you feel RELIEVED that you don’t live with that much stress in your daily life? Did you feel SAD for your brothers and sisters here for whom that DOES describe a normal day? No, I’m willing to BET, if anything, you may have felt a little GUILTY that I wasn’t describing YOUR typical day; that YOU’RE not that busy. “Man, what’s WRONG with me; I must not be as IMPORTANT as whoever Pastor Will is describing…”
And why is BUSYNESS such a “THREAT” anyway? What’s so wrong with keeping busy? After all, doesn’t Ephesians 5:16 exhort us to “make the best use of the time”; we don’t get FOREVER on this earth; I want to make a difference!
Well, the short answer is that there’s NOTHING wrong with being busy; we all go through busy seasons of life... a busy day here and there in your week. But there is LOTS wrong with busy-NESS; the state of being perpetually OVER-busy; being swept up in lively, but MEANINGLESS activity. The DANGER is: it will distract from, detract from, and ultimately destroy your intimacy with God, and crush your soul in the process.
Friends, if that’s YOU this morning, I want to invite you to do something with me right now; this may feel weird to some of you, but it’s VERY biblical - Psalm 119:97 “Oh how I love your word! It is my meditation all the day” - I wanna invite you to meditate on God’s word with me for the next 30 seconds or so. For 30 seconds, you have no responsibilities, no “to-dos”, no competing demands on your time, other than to simply meditate on God’s word. And here’s the verse I’d like us to sit with: Matthew 11:28 “Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” You got that? Say it with me one time to make sure we all got it: “Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”
Good. You can close your eyes if you want, sit up, breath in deeply, hold it, then repeat that silently to yourself as you exhale: “Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” Hear Jesus saying that to your tired, busy SOUL this morning, okay. Let’s give it a try: go ahead…
Amen. Now I invite you to stand with me... Luke 10:38-42
“Now as they went on their way, Jesus[d] entered a village. And a woman named Martha welcomed him into her house. 39 And she had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord's feet and listened to his teaching. 40 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.” 41 But the Lord answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things, 42 but one thing is necessary.[e] Mary has chosen the good portion, which will not be taken away from her.”
This is the word of the Lord… Let’s pray…
Context: Luke ch.10 is the first mention of this beloved family - Martha, Mary and Lazarus - good friends of Jesus, in the Gospels. But we hear about them in John chs.11 and 12; in John 11, Jesus raises Lazarus from the dead, and in ch.12, Jesus stays at their house again the week before his Crucifixion. And John relays some pretty telling information about the two sisters in particular. After Lazarus died, Mary was sitting in a puddle of her own tears, while Martha rushed out to find Jesus. When Jesus instructed them to roll the stone away, all Martha could think about was the SMELL. In John 12, while Mary was anointing Jesus’ feet before his death and burial, Martha was once again busy “serving”. She is the consummate, type-A, task-oriented, if you’re into the Enneagram voodoo; she’s a type 3: “Achiever”; Martha is a DOER.
And here’s what we need to recognize right from the outset: it’s not BAD to be a DOER. A type-A, task-oriented, #3: Achiever; God MADE Martha that way, and he’s made some of YOU that way too. I KNOW because I can see your legs bouncing all sermon long; it’s like your body is REJECTING the idea of sitting still for 40 whole minutes. If I look closely, I can see your notes from here, in your bulletins. As if you didn’t have enough on your to-do list already from Mon-Fri, you leave here on Sundays with even MORE to work on and keep you busy, spiritually, the following week. God MADE you that way, and God LOVE you for it. It’s NOT a bad thing.
But Achievers, you DO need to learn from the examples of Mary and Martha this morning. And here’s your lesson, in a nutshell:
Jesus cares more about your BEING WITH Him, than your DOING FOR Him.
Praise God for Achievers - they make the world go round! And they help the Kingdom of GOD advance, as well; you don’t make many disciples by sitting around Jesus’ feet all day long. So there is a BALANCE, to be struck here. Jesus DOES calls us to DO stuff: share the gospel, make disciples, care for the poor, show hospitality, like Martha is TRYING to do here. Those are ACTIVE verbs, and they’re not mere suggestions; they are COMMANDS from Jesus himself. But you know what ELSE he commands? TWO things, actually, if you want to make it really simple; Jesus said he could sum up the entire OT Law and prophets in just 2 commands: ““You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38 This is the great and first commandment. 39 And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” (Matt 22:37-39) The second is LIKE it. It’s LIKE the first; but it’s NOT the first, and you better not get the two confused.
Achievers: do not confuse your “loving your neighbor”, and “doing for” Jesus, caring for people the way that HE cared for them and yes, the way he calls YOU to care for them also… don’t confuse that with “loving the Lord your God with all your heart and soul and mind”. 1 John 4 makes it clear: you do NOT truly love God if you don’t love people. If you get the FIRST commandment right, the SECOND will follow. The problem for Achievers is: it is entirely possible to love people without actually loving God; or at the very least, to mess up the order of priority. And as we’re gonna see with MARTHA’s example here, the sad thing is that when we DO that, when we try and DO FOR Jesus without it coming naturally out of the overflow of hearts that have BEEN WITH Jesus; when we try and love others with a love that we haven’t first received from the Lord, from having ourselves spent time with Him, what ends up happening is that we try and get our sense of identity and purpose and joy from DOING FOR rather than BEING WITH... and when we’re inevitably left feeling empty and exhausted and frankly, a little unappreciated by all those we’re busy serving, we end up RESENTING them for FAILING to give us the joy and purpose and meaning we were searching for, because we’ve elevated our own serving to a place of primacy in our hearts that was intended to be reserved for God alone. 1 John 4:19 tells us that “We love because he first loved us.” We serve because he FIRST served us. But we’ve gotten it all backwards.
So how do we avoid the threat of BUSYNESS? Of becoming Marthas? 6 ways, I see here:
#1 - We need to Be PRONE to reproof. (v39)
We all know what they say: “The first step is… [WHAT?]” Admitting you have a problem. You can’t solve a problem you don’t know you HAVE. We’ve gotta start by acknowledging our heart’s tendency toward sin. As the hymn says: “Prone to WANDER, Lord, I FEEL it; prone to LEAVE the God I love.” And we start there, but we can’t STOP there! Because our heart is prone to wander, we have to actively COMBAT that with a proneness toward REPROOF. To be reproved is “to be criticized or corrected, especially gently”, and as Christians, we ought to LOVE it! Because…
Prov 6:23 “ the reproofs of discipline are the way of life,”;
So… Prov 15:5 “whoever heeds reproof is prudent.”
v32 “he’s intelligent.”;
By contrast: “he who hates reproof is stupid.” (Prov 12:1)
And ultimately, “He who is often reproved, yet stiffens his neck,
will suddenly be broken beyond healing.” (Prov 29:1)
So we ought to WELCOME reproof; Proverbs goes on to call a timely word of reproof a “gift of gold” (25:12) and a kindness (Ps 141:5). Because it’s an opportunity to address the sin in our life that holds us back from life to the fullest. It’s like when your friend lets you know after lunch that you have food stuck in your teeth; you don’t get MAD, do you?! How DARE you point that out! No - you THANK them; “Gosh, you saved me from looking like a FOOL the rest of the day…” We ought to approach reproof the same way: a chance to be SAVED from living like a FOOL, if we will be humble, and listen.
That’s where Martha first went wrong, in v39. The story opens in v38 with Jesus entering Bethany, and Martha welcoming him into her home. So far so good. Wonderful, as a matter of fact; Martha is a perfect example of the kind of “person of peace” Jesus had in mind back in v6 of this chapter. Martha’s first instinct - to welcome, feed, house and care for the Lord - is a BEAUTIFUL one.
But then we read v39: “And she had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord's feet and listened to his teaching.” NOW when Martha walks into the living room from the kitchen and SEES Mary sitting there, she’s got a choice to make, doesn’t she. She can really go in one of THREE directions at this point:
She can Realize that it’s more important to BE WITH Jesus than to DO FOR Jesus, learn from Mary’s example, BE reproved, take off her apron and sit down and listen to Jesus.
She might conclude that God has just wired her differently from Mary - that maybe she IS called to serve while Mary’s called to listen, and therefore, Martha could choose to serve JOYFULLY; OR...
She can double down and INSIST that the priority here is taking care of Jesus - after all, he’s travelled a long way, he’s GOT to be hungry and tired - and therefore convince herself that MARY is just being selfish and lazy.
Now, based on Mary’s attitude in v40, I think her choice is clear. But she could have avoided this embarrassing encounter ever ending up in God’s timeless word, if the moment she saw Mary sitting there, she had just stopped and ASKED Jesus - “Jesus - I’d love to hear your teaching too; should I come listen? Or should Mary and I both go cook and then we can ALL listen over dinner… or…” but she didn’t do that; why? Because she forgot she’s a sinner who might need to be REPROVED. She assumed that she was right and Mary was wrong. And moreover, Martha assumed she knew even better than JESUS did, what was best.
The biblical doctrine of TOTAL DEPRAVITY - Jeremiah 17:9, that “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?” - it means we have to flip the American judicial notion of the presumption of innocence on its head; when it comes to our own hearts and motives, we should probably assume we’re GUILTY until proven otherwise. You and I are sinful enough, that we should assume that we’re going to need regular reproof.
Especially when it comes to our BUSYNESS. So the first step to avoiding busyness, is to confess our tendency toward it, toward prioritizing other things over Jesus, and to assume that we’re going to need correction from time to time.
#2) We need to Conform to the Lord’s PARADIGM, not society’s. (v39b)
The Lord’s paradigm… His methodology, His way of thinking...
Here’s what I mean: Martha is paying more attention here to traditional 1st c. Jewish norms than she is to Jesus’ own direction. Commentator Kent Hughes explains: “It was unheard of [in 1st c. Judaism] for a rabbi to allow a woman to sit at his feet. Later rabbinic tradition [declared]: ‘May the words of the Torah be burned, they should not be handed over to women (j. Sota, 10a, 8)... Clearly, Jesus rejected such an un-Biblical, regressive attitude outright.” (406) And Mary took her cues from Jesus, not culture.
When it comes to BUSYNESS, you and I have to decide whose example, whose standards, whose NORMS we are going to conform to: society’s, or God’s? Society says “go, go, go”, 24/7, to get ahead”. God says, “Eh, I’m actually gonna design you to REQUIRE sleep, just to remind you that you are NOT indispensable. I’m gonna make 24/7 physically impossible for you. And then I’m gonna carve out ONE of those days of the week - the Sabbath - just for REST, once again, to humble you and remind you that the world goes on even if YOU take a day off. A wise friend had to REPROVE me once, when he caught me checking my work email on my “day off”; he said, “What do you think is gonna HAPPEN if you just leave that in the inbox until Monday? Is the sun not gonna come up tomorrow? What does it say about your view of God, that He was able to take a day off, He deemed that important enough to make time for, but when it comes to YOUR busy day, YOUR inbox, YOUR to-do list; No - THAT cannot wait… Is your activity more important than God’s?!”
Romans 12:2 exhorts us, “Do not be conformed to this world,[c] but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.” And his will on THIS one, on resting and NOT being a workaholic, addicted to busyness, is quite clear. The question is: will we listen and conform to the paradigm of our surrounding “do more, constantly” culture; or to the Lord’s?
#3 - We must learn to PRIORITIZE properly. (v40a)
This one is really game, set and match. Mary was listening to Jesus, but v40a: “But Martha was distracted with much serving.” The Greek word for “Distracted” - περισπάω - literally means “pulled away”; it has the connotation of something else of lower priority that is competing for and USURPING your attention.
Distractions are all about CONTEXT, aren’t they? Social media is a distraction while you’re at work, it “pulls you away” the job you’re being paid to do; but using it in moderation to connect with friends later that evening may be - CAN be - totally appropriate. My kids are the most important thing in the world to me; but on Sunday morning when I’m last minute reviewing the sermon before I preach, even THEY can be a distraction. So it’s all about the CONTEXT.
And the context HERE, in Luke 10, is that JESUS, the SON OF GOD, has just walked in the door. And now he’s in your living room, TEACHING. Telling parables that Christians will be pouring over, studying for thousands of years to come. But Martha’s too busy sweeping up the kitchen to stop and listen. One of the commentaries I read mentioned that the word - περισπάω - combined with Martha’s ANGER at Mary, gives us the impression that she actually WANTED to be in listening to Jesus, but she felt like she HAD to serve; “This dinner isn’t gonna cook itself; Jesus’ bed isn’t gonna MAKE itself…” We might imagine Jesus gently reminding her - remember when Jesus had to remind the Pharisees that “the Sabbath was made for MAN, not man for the Sabbath;” I can imagine him saying the same of “to-do lists”, to Martha here: “Martha, chores were made for people, NOT people for chores.”
Ask yourself this morning: Do you manage the tasks in your life? Or do the tasks manage you?
And secondly, do you prioritize those tasks properly? Let’s give Martha some credit here: in her defense, if you’re gonna be overloaded doing ANYTHING, at least she’s staying busy serving the Son of God! Cooking for Him, cleaning for Him; that’s more than most of US can say today. I’ve sort of framed this whole discussion as “DOING FOR” Jesus vs. “BEING WITH” Jesus - Martha vs. Mary - but the reality is that a LOT of the stuff that YOU AND I stay busy with has very little to do with EITHER, does it?! Think back to the example I opened with; I mentioned a quick morning devotional, and an evening life group, but the vast majority of our busyness is work, kids, meals, errands. Scrolling… Streaming… And again: it’s not that these things are BAD (well, not ALL of them, anyway…) - Jesus himself worked, as a laborer, for most of his life before he even began his ministry. He said “let the little children come to me,” and made time to play with them. He made time to eat with his friends. I assume he even ran errands. He DIDN’T scroll or stream; and I’m not sure he would, if he’d been born in the year 2,000. But he always kept his priorities straight. Good things NEVER got in the way of the BEST thing: intimacy with His heavenly Father; and if they ever THREATENED to, he would get up and go to the other side of the mountain to be alone and pray. The disciples would wake up, “Where’d Jesus go?”, and he’d have sailed to the other side of the lake to be alone and pray.
Friends: In what areas of YOUR life are YOUR priorities out of whack? A wise friend once reproved me: “Every time you say “Yes” to something, you say “NO” to something else”; which of your “Yes”s are causing you to say “NO” to time with Jesus? Maybe they’re good things. Work, family, errands. There are LOTS of good, important things that deserve a proper portion of our time in this life. But as Jesus will say, “Only ONE THING is necessary”. Is HE your priority?
#4 - We need to Repent of our PRIDE. (v40b)
Pride = “a high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority”
Why didn’t Martha just ask Mary to help her out in the kitchen in the first place? It’s because deep down, I think Martha wanted to be the one to get the credit for keeping a great house. If it was just about getting the house cleaned and dinner prepped, if it was ONLY about the task itself, she could have asked Mary to pitch in from the start, and gotten it done twice as fast. No, there’s a self-sabotaging sequence of connected events unfolding here, that every type-A “achiever” knows all-too-well:
The need to achieve → refusal to delegate → burnout → resentment: ““Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to serve alone?”
Achievers NEED to achieve. It’s where we get our sense of identity and worth. I’m the PREACHER. Who I AM is what I DO; I can’t let YOU preach, cuz then... what would that make ME? Martha can’t let MARY play the role of perfect homemaker; that would leave Martha in an existential identity crisis! So our unhealthy NEED, that DRIVE to achieve leads to a REFUSAL to delegate to others, which inevitably leads to burnout - an inability to keep all the balls in the air at once, and when they DO inevitably all come crashing down, our self-protective instinct is to then blame YOU and resent YOU for not stepping in sooner. EVEN THOUGH Martha probably would have REFUSED Mary’s help even if she’d have offered it. Why? What’s the ultimate source fueling that drive to achieve in the first place? It’s PRIDE. An overinflated sense of self. Or, perhaps even more frequently, it stems from INSECURITY, which is really just the other-side of the same coin. Tim Keller defines pride not as “thinking more of yourself” but, “thinking of yourself MORE”. So whether you’re full of yourself or you’re totally insecure, the common thread is that you’re always thinking about yourself. It’s all about you.
Achievers: we need to repent of our pride. Our need to stay busy because we derive our identity and WORTH from it. And instead, and here’s where we FINALLY get to the good part, and bring it back to “the LOVE” on Valentine’s Day...
#5 - We’ve gotta PERCEIVE Jesus’ love for us. (v41a)
How does Jesus respond to her? In v41? Does he say, “Hey Martha - quit thinking about yourself so much!” “Martha - did you ever bother to stop and ask me if I even WANTED dinner? For all you know, maybe I picked up carry-out on my way through Bethel. No, you didn’t, because your serving is really more about YOU than it is about ME, isn’t it”; does Jesus rake her over the coals like that? No. What does he say instead?
““Martha, Martha...”
And I bet in that moment, Martha learned her lesson, just from his tone of his second “Martha”. There was no judgment in his voice, no condemnation. What Martha heard from Jesus was the sadness of a friend who had travelled many miles not just for a warm meal and a bed; Jesus could have found that ANYWHERE - he was still quite popular at this juncture in his ministry, and even if he hadn’t been, don’t forget he always had the whole miracle-worker thing in his back pocket. No, Jesus had travelled all this way to BE WITH his friends: Mary, Martha, and Lazarus.
And Martha realized it instantly with that second, sad “Martha” from Jesus. That he had MISSED her all these many months away. That he had looked forward to spending this evening with his friends, but he was saddened that she was too distracted.
When you get your identity from your DOING, it’s no wonder it’s so hard to sit still. A few years ago now, we had a day not unlike some of these recent snow days, where it was so cold and icy out, we were trapped inside all day long - just Polly, Ellery and I (this was before Elijah came along). And as I recall, it was supposed to be my “day off” anyway, so we had made plans - I had made plans - to go do a bunch of activities: the Magic House in the morning, Science Center in the afternoon, go grab lunch in between... And then we got stuck at home. And I remember feeling ANTSY the whole day, like “I gotta DO something, or I’m gonna go CRAZY here…!” And I remember laying down in bed that night and sort of muttering under my breath to Polly: “Well, that day was a WASTE.”
And she replied, “I’m sorry you think it’s a WASTE to spend a whole day just being with your wife and daughter.”
Her tone probably wasn’t QUITE as loving and non-judgmental as Jesus’; she’s a sinner too. But nevertheless, I desperately needed her reproof. And God, in his MERCY, allowed me one of those rare moments of actually RECEIVING her rebuke without putting up ANY fight or defense; it was like I was cut to the CORE.
And here’s what God revealed to me, in that very moment; He let me see myself as I’d never seen myself before, and as the scales fell off my eyes; I actually confessed it out loud to Polly; I said:
“It’s not that I don’t like being with you and Elle; I LOVE y’all. I think I’m realizing that I’m afraid that if I sit still for too long, I might be forced to look in the proverbial mirror and realize how much I hate MYSELF. That I stay busy because it distracts me from spending time with ME. Cuz I HATE me.”
Friends, I don’t presume to know anything about your busyness. Your motives for always being on the go. But here’s what I do know: Jesus loves you. He wants to spend time with you. He’d rather be with you than be served by you.
Do you know that you’re enough, for Jesus? Just you. Not you + the good, Christian deeds you do to please Him. Not the Instagram-filtered version of your life; you on your best day, with all the imperfections edited out. Not the future you that you’re working so hard to achieve, that you’re SURE He’ll be able to love more.
Nope. Just you. You’re enough for Him. Jesus could NEVER love you more than He does right now, at this very moment. Isn’t that wonderful? Who else has that kind of unconditional love for you? Sorry if I ruin Valentine’s Day with your spouse, your boyfriend or girlfriend, but compared to Jesus, their love is GARBAGE. Your significant other, your parents, your best friend, the next closest person in the world to you, loves you VERY conditionally, VERY imperfectly. Only JESUS loves you like this.
And when we PERCEIVE it, when we REALIZE it, it really DOES tend to put all the other “stuff” that we stay so “busy” with in proper perspective. I’ve heard it said, and found it to be personally true, that you can’t really just REMOVE an idol from your heart; you have to REPLACE it. Idols are kind of like Middle-Easterns dictators (and demons, by the way - that’s Matthew 12:45); you can’t just OUST them, or you leave a vacuum, and that’s how you end up with groups like ISIS and the Muslim Brotherhood stepping in. It’s the same with the idols of our hearts; they have to be REPLACED.
Friends: Jesus is inviting some of you this morning to replace your busyness with HIS love. And I’m telling you: that trade is an absolute NO-BRAINER! It is no contest!
“Cast all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.” (1 Peter 5:7)
Jesus LOVES you, and he really is inviting you, if you’re TIRED of your busyness this morning, to “Come to him… and he will give you rest.” Will you do it? Will you...
#6 - PASSIONATELY PURSUE Jesus. (vv41-42)
Will you remain a Martha, and stay “anxious and troubled about many things”, or will you be a Mary, and recognize the one TRULY necessary thing, and choose the good portion?
God has promised us: “You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart. ” (Jer 29:13). And God has PROVEN that he is passionately pursuing us - he pursued US all the way to the CROSS!
Jesus loves you. You’re ENOUGH for Him.
The question for YOU this morning is: Do you love HIM? Is HE enough for YOU?