“Focus On Your Priorities”
Sunday, July 14, 2024Key Verse
“And Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things” (Luke 10:41).
Text — Luke 10:38-42
Message
The case of Martha is very common to many youths. Another way to describe this kind of situation is majoring on minor things. Martha thought that she was being hospitable by being busy trying to prepare something for Christ to eat and drink. However, Christ told her to stop majoring on minor things. In other words, studying God’s Word is more important than food. Matthew Henry said, “The laying up of God’s oracles in our hearts will be of excellent use to us in all our conduct.”
A young man once told his parents that he would not go to the university until he got married. In as much as marriage is good, it should not come before education and career. The wise king Solomon said, “To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven” (Ecclesiastes 3:1). Jesus in this story is telling youths to stop focusing on what may be important but not urgent and begin to focus on what is both important and urgent. As for Martha’s matter, the Word comes before food.
Quote
The Word comes before food
Challenge
Tackle first the important and urgent.
Prayer for today
Help me, Lord, to do the needful, in Jesus’ name. Amen!
About Author - Pastor W.F. Kumuyi
Listed among “500 most powerful people on the planet” by the Foreign Policy magazine in 2013, Pastor (Dr.) William F. Kumuyi is the founder and General Superintendent of the Deeper Christian Life Ministry (DCLM) headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria. DCLM started in 1973 as a 15-member Bible study group right in Kumuyi’s apartment at University of Lagos where he was a lecturer. His revolutionary Bible teaching on personal holiness and commitment to evangelism soon gained so much traction and resulted in a widespread revival.
