11月18日
标 题：坐在耶稣跟前
经 节：马大伺候的事多，心里忙乱，就进前来，说：“主啊，我的妹子留下我一个人伺候，祢不在意吗?请吩咐她来帮助我。”（路加福音十章40节）
马大非常爱耶稣，她愿意为祂做任何事。但马大就是静不住！马大忙着伺候耶稣，根本没有时间享受主的同在，或是能更认识祂。马大愈辛勤服事，她心里对马利亚愈不满。当马大在房子里匆促进出，忙得不可开交地事奉耶稣时，马利亚却坐在耶稣的跟前。马大刚开始是兴高采烈地事奉，但是她的服事渐渐变质，心中充满愤怒和嫉妒。
要以服事耶稣来表达自己对祂的爱，固然是好事。但当服事占尽你的时间及精力，以致你没有时间给主，那你就是太忙碌了。你可能会像马大一样想着，如果自己不动手做，这件事不会完成的。这也许是真的，然而，耶稣教导你，人生最高的优先级应是你与主的关系。如果任何事情使你分心，疏忽了你与神的关系，这件事一定不是神的作为。神不会要你去做一些事，阻碍了你与基督的相交。有时候，事奉神及实行神指示的任务，的确是认识及体验神的最佳方法。但其他的时候，安静坐在祂的跟前听祂说话，则更为重要。
我们并没有被呼召得一直坐在耶稣的跟前，那会使我们的事奉一律停工。但祂也没有呼召我们不断地事奉，而不在基督里重新得力。你是否殷勤地事奉神，却没有时间与祂独处?
Sitting at Jesus’ Feet
But Martha was distracted with much serving, and she approached Him and said, “Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Therefore tell her to help me.” (Luke 10:40)
Martha loved Jesus dearly and would have done anything for Him. Her struggle came in being still! Martha spent so much time serving Jesus that she had no time to enjoy His company or to get to know Him better. The harder Martha worked, the more frustrated she became with her sister Mary. Mary was sitting at Jesus’ feet while Martha scurried around the house to make sure everything was in perfect order for Jesus. Martha’s service, though it started out with gladness, deteriorated into resentment and envy.
It is good to want to serve Christ as an expression of love for what He has done for you. Yet when your activity consumes your time and energies so that you have no time for Him, you have become too busy! You may think, as Martha did, that if you don’t do the work, it won’t get done. That may be true, but Jesus taught that your highest priority must be your relationship with Him. If anything detracts you from that relationship, that activity is not from God. God will not ask you to do something that hinders your relationship with Christ. At times, serving God and carrying out His mission is the best way to know and experience God. At other times, it is more important to sit quietly at His feet and listen to what He is saying.
We are not called to continually sit at the feet of Jesus, otherwise our service for Him would cease. Neither are we called to serve Him incessantly, without taking time to find restoration in His presence. Have you been serving God so diligently that you have not had time to spend with Him?
