Seeking Martha

Sisters

Mary and Martha were sisters and, as all sisters are, with very different temperaments. While Martha was all busy in the background doing this and that, Mary appears to be doing nothing. Yet, Jesus said she had chosen the better part. The implication? It is better to sit at the feet of Jesus than to be bustling around, worried about all the little details. Or is that what he’s saying?

While he never told her specifically to sit down, wasn’t God always telling us in scripture to, “Be still and know that i am God”? I say there is a time to sit still and a time to be bustling about. We need both temperaments.

I personally am of the “sit and do nothing” temperament. I read, study, mull it all over, research and put it all together. In that process there are times i do all the background busy work. I need to find something mindless to do with my hands, everyday tasks, loading the dishwasher, backing bread, vacuuming. But i would much rather someone else do all that. I want to walk, wear out my body and force myself deeper into my head. I need to breath and hear the sounds all around of God talking to me as i put all the parts together.

I need Martha. I will gladly sit and discuss all that is rambling in my head and by helping you to understand what i have discovered it helps me clarify it even further. Many times while talking to another things come out of my mouth that are so profound to me that i am amazed because i didn’t even know that i knew that information and i know it is God speaking through me.

We need each other in whatever capacity we are able to walk, with whatever temperament we have, with all our different skills and communication levels. God is the creator of all the diversity that exists among us. We are each part of the body that has a function; a purpose. We many be sisters but we are ONE body in Christ.