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“Pause Before You Serve”
Luke 10:41-42 NIV
“Martha, Martha,” the Lord answered, “you are worried and upset about many things, but few things are needed—or indeed only one. Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her.”
As much as we are called to serve throughout Scripture, we are also told that it is very crucial for us to find times where we sit at the feet of Jesus and take His teaching in and just be still.
Martha is doing her very best to get preparations ready for Jesus and his followers. Mary is usually helping with that, but instead she chooses what is actually better in this situation. Martha doesn’t get it and gets very upset.
So many of us do what Martha is doing. We love to serve in God’s Kingdom. Having a servants heart is exactly what God wants us to do. All throughout Scripture, we have examples of those who have served others in wonderful ways. However, Jesus had multiple times in His ministry where He purposely chose to go away and be alone with His Father. He chose to take time away from people and He spent quality alone time to connect and recharge with His Father.
So many of us have the problem of serving so much that we forget that we also need time to sit at the feet of Jesus and take it all in. We need those down times where we are doing nothing but reading, praying and just being in awe of Him. It’s hard for us to shut down our busyness and just be in His presence. So, there are times when we absolutely need to stop serving and start sitting. Just like Mary, we need times where we put the busyness aside and just bask in Him.
In our culture today, it almost feels wrong to sit and do nothing. With me having ADHD, it’s extremely difficult for me to just sit and do nothing. I feel so unproductive! And, strangely enough, our church just completed a sermon series called “Unproductive”. It was a great series and really opened my eyes.
I wanted to encourage all of us, who struggle with staying busy all day long, that we need to stop serving and start sitting. We need to make it a priority to get some alone time with God. Start small and make it quality time, however long you can make it. Some is better than nothing and then work your way up to more time. It’s alone time that we all need. If Jesus made it a point to get alone with His Father in the midst of His busy ministry schedule, we can make the time as well.
The next time you feel yourself just about to go into auto-pilot on serving, take a pause and ask yourself, “Should I be serving or just sitting at the feet of Jesus?”
