Women of Courage – Martha and Mary Nov. 15

 

Women of Courage – Martha and Mary  Nov. 15

We began by re-reading Luke 10

³⁸ Now as they went on their way, Jesus entered a village. And a woman named Martha welcomed him into her house. ³⁹ And she had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord's feet and listened to his teaching. ⁴⁰ But Martha was distracted with much serving. And she 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.” ⁴¹ But the Lord answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things, ⁴² but one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, which will not be taken away from her.”

Another person sat at Jesus feet in Luke 8  ³³ Then the demons came out of the man and entered the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake and drowned.  ³⁴ When the herdsmen saw what had happened, they fled and told it in the city and in the country. ³⁵ Then people went out to see what had happened, and they came to Jesus and found the man from whom the demons had gone, sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in his right mind, and they were afraid. ³⁶ And those who had seen it told them how the demon-possessed^[d] man had been healed. ³⁷ Then all the people of the surrounding country of the Gerasenes asked him to depart from them, for they were seized with great fear.

Deut. 33:3 Sat down; 2Sam 2:18; 1 Peter 2:1-3 Longing for the word; Luke 2:46

No matter what position you are in you can sit at Jesus’ feet

Matt. 13:23 the parable of the soils- the good soil had a great increase and the proverbs 31 woman worked a whole lot and was honorable because her heart was for the Lord.  We need to watch our focus.

Psalm 119: 30, 63, 104-105, 111, 173  David loved the precepts of the Lord, he loved his commands, even the wrath because he knew the Lord was just and righteous.

Matt. 13 ³⁰ Let both grow together until the harvest, and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, Gather the weeds first and bind them in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into my barn.’

Sometimes we don’t like what we see around us and we want to remove the tares…. But it is the Lord that places and removes.  We need to be more like the slave, doing what the master wants.  Sometimes we have tasks that we don’t like we need to go to God in prayer.  God can be teaching us and his kindness is revealed as he gently leads us through the rough spots.   God is always concerned with our physical and spiritual needs.

We spoke about question 6 and next time we will address question 7