Jesus wants you to focus on one thing
If you spend time around Jesus one thing is sure: it won’t be long until He challenges your priorities! In Luke 10, two sisters, Mary and Martha, had Jesus and His crew over for dinner. Martha spent the whole visit frantically preparing for the meal, while Mary did nothing but sit at Jesus' feet and hang out with Him. Frustrated, Martha went to Jesus and complained: "Mary isn't doing her share of the work!”
But Jesus responded surprisingly: "Martha, Martha, you are worried and upset about many things, but only one thing is needed. Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her."
Jesus wanted Martha to see the problem wasn't her sister, but her priorities: she had such grand plans to impress Him and her friends that she forgot she had the Son of God sitting in her living room. Her obsession with meeting her culture's expectations distracted her from what was important: being friends with Jesus.
It's so easy to be like Martha: we spend our lives frantically trying to meet our peers’ expectations for what is cool, trendy, and popular, and never have any time to just sit at Jesus' feet and hang out. We prioritize knowing the latest trends in clothes, restaurants, home decor, music, TV shows, travel, Instagram, or whatever else your subculture is obsessed with, and are always too busy and distracted to invest in what will last: a relationship with Jesus.
So much of our Martha-like busyness is caused by trying to do everything to impress everyone. But Jesus calls you to quit worrying about whether your life meets all your peers’ expectations, and instead asks you to believe in one simple idea, that Jesus + nothing = everything!
