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‘There is one thing worth being concerned about – Mary has discovered it’ Luke 10:38

Why are we rushing around so much???!!!
Sorry, I’ll start again. In Ecclesiastes 3 the writer tells us that there is a time for everything, sleeping, waking, working, resting, living...dying! I feel after the week I’ve had, that had I written Ecclesiastes 3, I would have said something like...’a time for work, a time for always saying yes and never saying no, a time for rushing, a time for just doing a bit more...a time for worrying about the bit I didn’t do...’
So much of our time is spent zooming around at brake neck speed trying to ‘get it all done’. Whatever it is.
I was thinking the other day that often the things I’m rushing around trying to get done are actually good things. Seeing a mate, trying to be good at my job, calling up an old friend, helping at church, or the youth group, or at home...etc. Now this is not to say that I don’t have a multitude of selfish, lazy and egocentric moments. But I think what is clear is that we can be ‘well intentioned’...and yet still miss the mark...
The cars in the picture at the top are going quick, really quick! By some trickery of modern photography we’ve got this image of trailing lights, going at such a pace...we can’t actually distinguish one car from the next, or what’s really going on. Everyone rushing in a flurry of activity, zooming past , no time to stop.
Psalm 46 v10 says very plainly...’ be still and know that I am God’...
Be still
I don’t do still very well; if I have a personal record for time spent in solitary, silent meditation and prayer it must be in single figures. Still, when I think about it...I have to admit, it’s not actually the ‘being still’ bit that is to blame for this...it’s me. I’ve made a life so busy with detail that to stop and be still with God is actually a really hard thing to do.
Jesus knew that taking time to be still with God, time with his Father was crucial. He did so much in his ministry, yet so many times the Gospels record Jesus taking time out to be still, to pray and be with God. This was a way of living in tune with God and not the world. While Jesus was at the home of Mary and Martha (Luke 10:38), Martha was rushing around, trying do the good and right thing - preparing a meal, being a good host; her sister, Mary, was just sitting with Jesus, being still, being in his presence.
Jesus didn’t deny that Martha’s ‘things’ needed to be done, nor that in some way they weren’t important. What he did do was affirm the most important thing...spending time with Him. The message to us is so simple à ‘be still and know that I am God’.
In the end there is only one real thing to be concerned about; Mary got it...have I?