The Fellowship of Joy

from  Jesus Mafa Martha, Martha, Mary Has Chosen What Is Best.   #maryandmartha   #Jesus   #kairos   #chronos   #meditation   #spirutality   #devotional   #prayer Background Readings Amos 8:1-12 Psalm 52, Colossians 1:15-28, Luke 10:38-42 Dear Martha “…Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things: But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.” -Luke 10:41b-42   There has been so much said about Martha, but Jesus was not criticizing her. Martha started the criticism with her complaint that Mary was not helping with the entertaining duties.  She was joining the men.  She was soaking up the presence and the words of Jesus. She was investing in things that were intangible.  Jesus did not invalidate Martha or her work. He observed that she was busy and frantic and occupied with many things.  These things could have occupied Mary as well. There...

Do Likewise “Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbour unto him that fell among the thieves? And he said, He that shewed mercy on him. Then said Jesus unto him, Go, and do thou likewise. “ — Luke 10:36–37 We all know the story. It was prompted by a question and occasioned by a teaching in response to a greater question. What we have here is the application: Go and do likewise. One question led to another, then to a story, and then to the lesson Jesus desired to imprint upon every heart: that everyone is our neighbor and that loving our neighbor is about making a practical and active decision to do so and following through regardless of our feelings. A legal expert who sought to trap Jesus in His own words asked Him what was necessary to inherit eternal life. He turned the question back to him and to his knowledge and interpretation of the law. “Love God and love your neighbor” was both the answer he gave and the one that Jesus Himself gave on another occasion when asked wh...

https://linktr.ee/tomsims - with various ways to connect Luke 10:1-20 “Go your ways: behold, I send you forth as lambs among wolves” – Luke 10:3 The costly commission to follow Jesus and to go forth as His ambassadors is so controversial as to appear adversarial. Jesus warns us to expect hostility and opposition. He does not say this to discourage us, but to encourage us. He does not intend to frighten us away, but to have us brace ourselves in the embrace of His grace and power. “Go your ways,” He says this, knowing that each of us has a path that is uniquely and wondrously ours. No two paths are exactly the same though they often intersect and frequently follow parallel courses. We may hesitate to go our ways because it is less risky to continue as we have been, sitting at the feet of Jesus in the cloistered environs of our religious retreats. But we must go. It is His commission. “I send you,” He says this and that gives us courage to go forth, knowing that we have bee...