We are all unique, having our own personalities, talents, and quirks. So it should be no surprise two Biblical sisters – Mary and Martha – can confirm this to be true. They were pretty different from each other as well. Jesus took note of it; Luke made sure we knew the details.
As the disciples were traveling, they were welcomed into the home of these two sisters. Martha, who had extended the invitation, was hustling about preparing a big dinner. Mary, we are told, sat at the Lord’s feet. Martha gets a little peeved when she notices Mary is not helping her at all with the preparations. And she complains to Jesus.
“Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to do all the serving alone? Then tell her to help me.” (Luke 10: 40, NASB)
Martha was doing exactly what women in her day would have been expected to do – prepare and serve the meal. She was the one who had opened her home, and had to have recognized the amount of work it would entail to prepare a meal for Jesus and the disciples. Yet she seems to want Jesus to tell Mary to get up and assist her.
Jesus doesn’t do so.
“But the Lord answered and said to her, “Martha, Martha, you are worried and bothered about so many things; but only one thing is necessary, for Mary has chosen the good part, which shall not be taken away from her.” (Luke 10: 41-42, NASB).
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