Message from Scripture: 4/22/2021

 

Our message from Scripture today is Luke 10:41-42. “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things, but one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, which will not be taken away from her.”

 

When the Crystal Palace Exhibition opened in 1851, people flocked to London's Hyde Park to see all the marvels current technology provided.  One of the greatest marvels then was steam.  There were steam plows displayed, along with steam locomotives, steam looms, steam organs, and even a steam cannon.

 

Of all the great exhibits that year, the first prize winner was a steam invention with 7,000 parts.  When it was turned on, its pulleys, whistles, bells, and gears made a lot of noise, but ironically, the contraption didn't do a thing!  Here was a device with 7,000 moving parts, making a lot of commotion, but having no real practical use.

 

Are there hundreds, even thousands, of parts spinning, turning, and making a lot of noise in your life, but accomplishing nothing that will avail for salvation? The "contraptions" of our lives may look impressive to others, but what of their substance?  God is the final judge, and what you think has substance may dissipate before His searching eyes like steam. “For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.  And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account” (Heb. 4:12-13). Make the most of what you have today, for what really matters. God bless.

 

Robert