i decided to comment further on this because of my pastoral concerns. i have seen and known of many pastors, leaders and serious christians who gave their lives in service but failed to take time to reflect on God and His dealing in our lives. I cannot help but remembered the life of Martha. She was busy looking into how to make Jesus comfortable but missed out the one thing that is most important! to be with Jesus. She is in the bible not for us to feel that she was a reflection of someone else. i believe God wants to warn all of us that we are potentially a Martha. we can serve, give, work, commit and fulfil many many more Christian's challenges... and yet miss the very heart of Christian life. We are called to worship! We are made for worship! We are destined to be worshipper. Yet, we can be excited about the music and missed the Master, aborbed by the mood and missed the Maker, consumed by the lyrics and missed the Lord (for which the words decribed). Why? How so? BEcause we are caught by the activities and missed the Almighty! We are interested in the task rather than the heart. It is easier to deal with the "no brain" activities rather than to face up with the ugliness within our soul. the heart is not a nice place to be at. sometimes, we are appalled by our heart conditions. sometime, we are so sick of our sickness in our heart. sometimes, we cannot believe we are so evil in our hearts. and precisely for reason like this....we need to ask God to help!
We all need a new heart! Change my heart O Lord!
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Amen to that!
Its something I've been thinking about too..How real it is that we need to make our heart's christ Home and allow Him to dwell there, so that HE can strengthen us in the inner being!
Thanks for being authentic and for emphasising the importance of soul care.
The story of Mary and Martha has been on my mind recently,; especially after I read Henri Nouwen's essay -"The Path of Peace". There was something he mentioned that caused me to go back to this story, that is "Peace is not primarily about doing. It is first of all the art of being." Our innermost heart beat should be "being" a child of God and out of that a "doing" of the works of ministry.
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