Martha's Encumbrance
Luke 10:40
Martha's anxiety to provide the best
entertainment possible for her honored guests and her excessive zeal concerning
temporal things caused her to forget the far more important spiritual things
for a brief period of time. She brought upon herself a solemn rebuke and an
embarrassing word of reproof from the Savior that must have made a lasting
impression.
MARTHA'S FAULT SHOULD BE A PERPETUAL
WARNING TO ALL WHO CARE FOR THEIR SOULS. Beware of the cares of this world
(Matt.
THOUGH MARTHA GREATLY ERRED, SHE WAS A
GENUINE BELIEVER. She truly loved Christ, though for a time she certainly did
not act like a woman who loved him. Several things demonstrate the reality of
her love for the Savior. (1) She took the Lord's public rebuke with humility,as being an act of his love. "Faithful are the wounds
of a friend!" (2) Two of the greatest confessions of faith to be found in
the Bible fell from the heart and lips of this beloved woman: "Then said
Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died. But
I know, that even now, whatsoever thou wilt ask of God, God will give it
thee" (John
Don Fortner