Two Woman      Luke 10:38-42

This post concerns two women and their priorities.

‘Two Women’ as a post explores daily activities of women and listening to Jesus, Luke 10:38-42. “…And a woman named Martha welcomed him into her house. …she had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet and listened to his teaching. But Martha … distracted with much serving…  went up to him and said, “Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Tell her then to help me.” But the Lord answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things, but one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, which will not be taken away from her.”

Both Mary and Martha usually served together. However, when Jesus came, Mary stopped serving and sat listening to Jesus.

Note, the role of women in the household—a wide, variable workload shown in Proverbs 31:11-31—can take many hours of the day. A woman as shown in Proverbs 31 makes a home for herself and her husband, teaches and instructs the children, and serves as Martha did. Women were created as suitable companions for their husbands, Genesis 2:20. Martha clearly carried out her proper activities as a woman. Note also that Jesus did not say Mary’s not serving made her sinful.

But Jesus showed Martha a better role. So, when possible, she should alter her priorities and listen to Jesus. In this situation, Mary chose the good portion, listening to Jesus. She set aside a lower, but proper duty, to attend to a higher and more important duty. Therefore, important serving duties pale in importance when the possibility of listening to Jesus appears.

Thus, this incident teaches us that nothing is more important than listening to the words of Jesus.

Note, in this life someone or something can take away everything. But no one can take away the words of Jesus. For us today, serving comprises a good, daily duty. But time spent in Bible study must rank first.

What did we learn?

1.Listening to Jesus should show itself as number one in our lives.

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