There have been times in this writer’s working career where co-workers have displayed a lackadaisical attitude toward their work.<\/p>\n
Such attitudes are why I usually find myself saying a few words in defense of Martha whenever I teach on Luke 10:38-42. You’ll recall that she was “distracted with much serving” (Luke 10:40), while her sister Mary did nothing but listen to Jesus.<\/p>\n
It’s easy for me to see Martha’s point of view. In Proverbs, more than a dozen verses rebuke the slothful. And when some first-century Christians quit working and started to freeload off others, Paul laid down the rule: “If anyone will not work, neither shall he eat” (2 Thessalonians 3:10).<\/p>\n
However, our approach to work must be balanced<\/strong>. Proverbs 4:7 KJVsays, “Wisdom is the principal thing.” Martha could have said, “Mary, dinner can wait. I’ll join you in listening to Jesus before getting started in the kitchen.”<\/p>\n Work is vital. But we should not be so obsessed with it that it crowds out worship and spiritual instruction.<\/p>\n Brethren, let’s work hard (Ecclesiastes 9:10) but let’s also keep first things first! (Matthew 6:33).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There have been times in this writer’s working career where co-workers have displayed a lackadaisical attitude toward their work. Such attitudes are why I usually find myself saying a few words in defense of Martha whenever I teach on Luke 10:38-42. You’ll recall that she was “distracted with much serving” (Luke 10:40), while her sister … Continue reading “First Things First! – Bible study”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}