Mary And Martha Explained

Luke 10:38-42 (KJV) Now it came to pass, as they went, that he entered into a certain village: and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house.

And she had a sister called Mary, which also sat at Jesus’ feet, and heard his word.

But Martha was cumbered about much serving, and came to him, and said, Lord, dost thou not care that my sister hath left me to serve alone? bid her therefore that she help me.

And Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things:

But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.

The story of Mary and Martha is pretty clear and straight to the point, as it is a story about service and what is actually important. Mary and Martha are sisters who live together, and our Lord and Savior has been invited to stay at their house and teach. Martha was the one who actually received the Lord and invited him to their home. The minute the Lord entered into the house Martha got busy with preparations. As Martha cleans the house and prepare food for more guests she looks over and sees her sister sitting at the Lords feet. Now Mary and Martha, even though they are sisters, responded to the arrival of Yahusha in different ways. When Martha sees that the Lord has arrived, she has begun to get busy with preparing and serving for the Lord and other guests. But Mary has responded to the arrival of the Lord by choosing to sit at his feet and hang onto his every word. This led Martha to request for the Lord to send Mary to help her with preparing and serving. But the response that Martha got was not what she expected. This lead the Lord to says that beautiful saying that we all know “ Martha, Martha thou art careful and troubled about many things, but one thing is needful and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.”

When Martha saw Mary just sitting at Yahusha’s feet she made the mistake of presuming that Mary was being lazy or neglecting her responsibilities and that was not so. Mary choose a greater surrender and that was to be in the presence of Yahushua. Surrendering to the Heavenly Father and getting into the word is a call that the Lord tells us to do all the time. He tells us to get into the word and meditate on it, when this happens the word gets deep inside of us and transforms us into his likeness. The word is also known as the “living word” because it is known to be alive and transforms the reader. We sometimes forget hat Yahusha is also called the living word, because he his the word of Yahweh made flesh.

John 1:1-5 (KJV) In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

The same was in the beginning with God.

All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

In him was life; and the life was the light of men.

And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

Another thing that people don’t realize is that Yahusha was teaching before the crowd came to the house. Yahusha was teaching and talking to Mary and Martha by themselves before the crowed came to Mary and Martha’s home to also hear Yahusha speak. How many times do we miss the Lord speaking to us in our everyday walk because we are so busy with things that have no fruit or value. When the Lord comes to visit us we need to stop what we are doing, pay attention and here what the Good Lord is saying to us today.