The Main Thing

Hey friends: Let's meditate on the Scripture and the vignette below and remember to keep the Main Thing the Main Thing. God bless you.

As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him. She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to what He said. But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made. She came to him and asked, “Lord, don’t you care that my sister has left me to do all of the work by myself? Tell her to help me!” “Martha, Martha,” the Lord answered, “you are worried and upset about many things, but only one thing is needed. Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her.” Luke 10:38-42.

I once had a co-worker whose name was Art. Art was a great guy, but he suffered from what I called the “drifts.” In other words, my friend could never quite get to or stay on the point. Given any task or even a simple question, Art would take the long way around, explaining and clarifying details that, frankly, didn't matter. I would sit and wait for Art to get to the “main thing,” but he could never quite pull it off. Art had earned a Masters in majoring on the minors.

Many of us are like Art. We spend our entire lives working up a sweat over minor things, not necessarily bad things, but not the best things. This also translates to the Christian life. Although we know that the Lord Jesus is the “Main Thing,” our human tendency is to drift. “Prone to wander,” the old hymn says.

We can even allow our ministry for the Lord to get in the way of our time with the Lord. That is never our intention at the start. We just begin to drift one day and pretty soon the Lord is in the other room while we are too busy “ministering” to hear Him!

Are you over-busy friend? Do you find that you're too rushed to spend time alone with the Lord? Are you in the kitchen all by yourself? Only One Thing is really needed – your intimate connection with Him. Everything else flows from that. Why don’t you cease from your busy work and join Him in the other room where He's been waiting for you.