Luke 10:38-42
38As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him. 39She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to what he said. 40But 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!”
41“Martha, Martha,” the Lord answered, “you are worried and upset about many things, 42but only one thing is needed. Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her.”
Jesus want us to choose what is better. I used to see this spiritual lesson as white and black – either we are too busy for Jesus, or we are too focus on Him to be of any practical use to the world, but now I understand that God want us to have revelation and instruction from Him every time we do anything in this physical realm.
Physical realm and spiritual realm overlap each other. I didn’t fully realize that before. Therefore I had never been fully present in either realms.
The best time management is to do the most important things right the first time. How do we do that? By listening to God’s voice and do what He said. See, the merge of spiritual and practical!
It would take a lot of time to pray and listen. It takes a lot of time to see with the inner eyes. Once we see it, we should keep digging into that truth and implement it. Soon, that truth will set us free, but it takes major time out of every usual busy day.
However, looking back, I think I have gone through a lot of unnecessary busyness and hardship because I didn’t really bring my daily matter to God— to let Him triage my minutiae and urgency. Let Him tell me what are the top priorities are for the day.
Take major time to seek God’s will and God’s solution on things, and you will save big time.
Let see how the worldly people make it in life: the super wealthy and successful people. They know their priority. They know their strength. They ignore what is unnecessary and do the main things right.
We as children of God have the privilege to let God do this high level decision making for us. If we allow Him to choose our priority, show us our gifts, and do only what He wants us to do, we will always have the money, time, and energy to do what He wants us to do.
If we don’t seek God’s will, if we are self-centered, and if we try to do what worldly people do best, then we can never do better than them. You can’t put new wine in old wineskins (Luke 5:36-39)
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