Deuteronomy 26:1-27:26, Luke 10:38-11:13, Psalms 76:1-12, Proverbs 12:15-17
Today is the 4th day of April. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian. It’s great to be here with you and just settle in and let the word of God be spoken over us and into our lives. What a joy, what a pleasure to come around the global campfire together with you. So, we’re reading from the Christian Standard Bible this week and we are kinda rounding the corner on the book of Deuteronomy and that will conclude the Torah. We’re not there, we’ve got a few days to go but we are rounding the corner and we’ll finish up within the next week. So, let’s dive. We’ll be reading Deuteronomy chapters 26 and 27 today. And again, from the Christian Standard Bible this week okay.
Commentary:
So, in the gospel of Luke today, we encounter this little brief story about Mary and Martha and we know from other gospels and other stories, Mary and Martha were sisters of Lazarus who was a friend of Jesus, and who has a story of his own in the Scriptures, but in this story, we have a well-worn visual, right? Martha is working and she’s busy serving and doing all the things that need to be done all around Jesus while Mary is sitting at his feet and listening to Him. And, so, the lesson that we can glean from this is apparent, right? All of our frantic activity and all of our motion and all of our addiction to the motion, even if it is in service to God and his people, this flurry of activity, isn’t the thing that’s going to draw us closer to Jesus, it’s actually being with Jesus. When we live our lives it seems at times, from crisis to crisis and activity to activity, and it’s just a continual perpetual motion and God is kind of whipped into that and off we go, when Jesus…Jesus speaks some things that we can remember here. “You are worried and upset about many things, but one thing is necessary. Mary made the right choice and it won’t be taken away from her.” So, let’s remember that today as we go into the chaos of every day, of all of the unknowns of every day, and all of the flurry of activity and all of the obligations and responsibilities. You are worried and upset about many things, but one thing is necessary and that one thing is to sit at Jesus feet to actually be with Him. And if we think, “well maybe He doesn’t even want to be with me” He goes on to tell us, “look you who are evil know how to give good things to your children, do you not think that your Father knows how to take care of you. So ask and it will be given, seek and you will find, knock and the door will be opened to you.” And we have to ask ourselves, how much of our flurry of activity even if it’s on behalf of God is asking seeking or knocking because it fundamentally boils down to what we after here? What are we hoping for? What we trying to achieve? What is the goal here? If the goal is that God is an add-on, an upgrade to our lives, our ace in the hole to take care of the problems as they come then we’re going to find that to be lacking. If we understand that we are invited into life with God, that’s different. And if we ask and we seek and we knock we will find what we’re looking for or in the words of Jesus, “if you then who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him?”
Prayer:
Father, we are asking, Holy Spirit come, well up from within us that we might sense your presence and your guidance and your leadership and your comfort in our lives that is always available but usually we’re so frantically busy that we’re not even aware. Come Holy Spirit, let us slow down, slow the whole thing down and see that you are present in leading us forward. We ask this in your mighty name, the name of Jesus, the name above every name. Amen.
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