Martha was cumbered about much serving. Luke 10:40
"HER fault was not that she served:
the condition of a servant well becomes every Christian. "I serve,"
should be the motto of all the princes of the royal family of heaven.
Nor was it her fault that she had "much serving."
We cannot do
too much. ---let head, and heart, and
hands, be engaged in the Master's service.
*It was no fault of hers that
she was busy preparing a feast for the Master.
*Happy Martha, to have an
opportunity of entertaining so blessed a guest; and happy, too, to have
the spirit to throw her whole soul so heartily into the engagement.
Her
fault was that she grew "cumbered with much serving,"
so that she forgot Him,
and only remembered the service.
---Joshua never grew weary in fighting
with the Amalekites; but Moses, on the top of the mountain in prayer,
needed two helpers to sustain his hands. The more spiritual the
exercise, the sooner we tire in it.
See to it that sitting at the Savior's feet is
not neglected, even though it be under the specious pretext of doing Him
service and to see that the vital
spirituality of our religion is maintained over and above everything
else in the world."
Charles Spurgeon
