YOU WORRY AND FRET

PRAYER PAUSE        

Saturday, 29 July 2017, Martha

YOU WORRY AND FRET

Pause. Enter into the stillness of God within.

Reading: “Martha, Martha,” Jesus said, “you worry and fret about many things, yet few are needed.” (Luke 10:38-42)

Reflection. Poor Martha! She has had a bad press over the centuries. “Mary has chosen the better part” and you have chosen the less good. That is hardly what Jesus meant. He loved Martha and he appreciated all she did in welcoming him into her house. Later he would say to her the words that are often repeated at funerals, “I am the resurrection.”  No, the incident gives Jesus a chance to point out that in the midst of our work we keep our underlying orientation towards him.We have to do our work but we do it with the horizon of the kingdom of God before us. We are not just fretting about aimlessly. The values of the Sermon on the Mount reflect back into all that we do.

Prayer. Lord Jesus, may we work so that everything depends on us but trust so that everything depends on you. Amen.