Today’s Scripture Threshing for Wednesday, March 20, 2019
Today’s Text: Luke 10:38-42
Key Verse: Luke 10:42 (AKJV): ”But one thing is needful: and Mary has chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.”
In an age of hustle and bustle, when men and women are made to believe they’ve got to do so much to make it among the fittest; how easy is it to learn the Jesus’ lesson of “One thing is needful?!” We do so much yet get so little satisfaction. Yet you’re calling for less?!
Like Martha, we all mean well in all that we do: We try some strategies; apply some care and visits; increase our fits in businesses; add more working hours; take on additional degrees; and do as much as as possible. And the more we do, the more the myriads of things calling for our attention each day. I’ve been there as a pastor in a large city. I have heart for God and for people — and this leaves me a sense of obligations for each day and moment.
Our charge today is that whoever we are, or whatever we do or seek, God wants all of us who are His children to realize that there is one thing which is so surpassingly excellent that it may be considered, among all, the one good thing. Other things may be expedient but that one thing brings the highest good. Regardless of all our doings — whether it is stabilizing a home, building a business, growing a ministry, making a home, shaping a promising career, gaining peer approval, ensuring a well-planned retirement, or touching the poor in your community — one thing, our Lord says, is needful.
How shall we then determine the needful, and pursue it?! What could it possibly be? Our Lord made sure we do not miss that. He points our encumbered Martha generation to Mary. Watch Mary seated at the Master’s feet to learn of Him who is the source of true life. If things of this life are not taken away from us, at the end, we shall be taken away from them; but nothing shall separate us from the love of Christ. Let us therefore apply our hearts and strength to pursue that one needful thing more deliberately and diligently.
Quote for the Day: “Nothing is more beneficial than pursuing God’s love and word.” (Simon Olatunji)
Prayer: Dear LORD, I’ve been chasing dreams that have brought me nothing in return. I’m through with pursuing stuff that doesn’t satisfy. Take me out of this trap, and lead me to a deep-seated desire to desire you and your word forever, in Jesus name I pray. Amen.
With all my Love and Prayer,
Simon Wale Olatunji, PhD
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