LORD, Help Us To Balance Our Duties.

Mary might well complain of Martha! 

(Charles Spurgeon, "Flowers from a Puritan's Garden" 1883)

"Martha, Martha, you are worried and
troubled about many things. But one
thing is needed, and Mary has chosen
that good part, which will not be taken
away from her." Luke 10:41-42

"The world eats up our time, 

our energies, and our thoughts--

and GOD has but a little share, 

little worship, little reverence."

For the most part in our households, 

Mary might well complain of Martha, 

for family cares still encumber many 

and keep them away from JESUS' feet. 

Very seldom are Christians nowadays 

too much in the closet, too much with 

their Bibles, too much at prayer-

meetings. Alas, the most of them 

are all zeal for the world, the shop, 

or the evening party! 

"Martha, Martha!" 

we may well complain 

to the MASTER of you--

for you leave HIM alone, 

and forsake HIS teaching--

and all for this poor, 

cumbering world!

LORD, help us to balance our duties, 

and thus may we serve you after 

the best manner, through your grace.

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GraceGems has published J.R. Miller's very comforting one page article,
"The Refuge in Sorrow".