MY FRIENDS, HAVE WE, OR HAVE WE NOT CHOSEN THAT GOOD PART?

April 8, 2016

MY FRIENDS, HAVE WE, OR HAVE WE NOT CHOSEN THAT GOOD PART?

The narrative begins with Jesus as a guest at the house of Mary and Martha, Martha seems to be doing all the preparation for their special guest while Mary is occupied at the feet of Jesus so Martha approaches Jesus and ask, “Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Therefore tell her to help me!!”

And Jesus answered and said to her, “Martha, Martha, you are worried and troubled about many things. But one thing is needed, and Mary has chosen that good part, which will not be taken away from her.” Luke 10:40-42 (KJV) My friends, it is now personal because we must have that personal relationship with Christ before we can even recognize our need of “that good part” which can only be obtained from being in the presence of Christ.

So my friends, are we willing to sit at the feet of the Master and allow “every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God” to become a driving force that takes us from earth to eternity. Remember this can only become possible, if we believe in the power of His word while we are in the presence of Christ, because “In Christ is the fountain of all knowledge. In Him our hopes of eternal life are centered.

He is the greatest teacher the world has ever known……The greatest wisdom, and most essential, is the knowledge of God. Self-sinks into insignificance as it contemplates God and Jesus Christ whom He hath sent. The Bible must be made the foundation for all study. Individually we must learn from this lesson book, which God has given us, the condition of the salvation of our souls;” (E.G. White, Fundamentals of Christian Education, 450, 451)

And my friends, our training is not part time, but a lifetime achievement and the more we allow ourselves to be in the presence of the Teacher, the more we begin to see lost souls as God sees them and Individuals that the god of this world has blinded the light from the countenance of God to shine on them, thus leaving their conscience unfazed by the good news of Christ return.

As we learn more and more from Christ and become His disciples, the Spirit then begins to give us the discernment to move out and become a witness for Christ, it also enables the listener to see Christ light through us and therefore is willing to seek that same inner peace and hope that all of God’s children have acquired at the feet of Christ. Remember God’s word is the process by which God’s character is cultivated in everyone who believes and endures.

But studying His word must be a daily process because the word is who Christ is, for “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God….. and In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.” John 1:1-5 (NMKV)

My friends, today we must ask ourselves have we refused to “chose that good part” because we have moved so far away from the presence of God because we have “set our mind on [the] things of this earth and not on [the] things above.” And because of this, we have “not chosen the good part” or comprehended the light that shines through the love grace and mercy of Christ into our hearts? But, grace still abounds, but for how long?

Every excuse we may give as the reason we cannot serve Christ, was challenged and answered at Calvary.