Mary and Martha have been on my mind today.

Luke 11:38-42.

I have been really busy the last few days, weeks, months. I know that the work that I am doing is good and that in everything that I am doing I am trying to follow God’s will, to give him the glory and to be used as his servant. But just today I realized something, sometimes all the work we do and all the time and energy we spend can actually pull us away from what we were made for……..

To love God and to be loved by him.

As I was sitting here at my Aunts ranch in Texas looking out the window at the grazing horses in fields of flowers, beautiful red birds hopping along the ground under stately oak trees I began to think about how awesome God was and how he created all of this beauty for us to enjoy. I was thanking him for all the glorious things that he has created when thoughts began to creep into my head. Not anything bad, in fact it is all good. It was plans for a fund raising dinner that my Uncle’s business wants to host. But I lost my thoughts of worship when the thoughts of “works” began to enter my head.
So I thank God today for showing me that while he wants the works of my hands he also desires the worship of my heart. I thank him for showing me that he made me for the purpose of loving him. That is my ultimate goal, to love God with all of my heart, soul and mind. To find joy in this love, to pursue him, to seek him, to surrender my all to the one who loves me lavishly.
I know that if I keep my eyes on the Father and my heart centered on his love, his word in my heart that all that the works that I long to do for others will be done according to his will and in his time and for his glory.

My prayer is that I remember to take the time to sit at his feet instead of scurrying around on my feet.