Chosen the better part

Originally posted on January 26,2006

Chosen the better part:

"There is need of only one thing, Mary has chosen the better part." NRSV Luk10:42

Mary had chosen wisely.
Martha was distracted by her many tasks.

However, it is easy to become a Martha.

We are always overloaded with too many tasks and too many commitments: to our career, our family & friends, even to ourselves, our interests, and pursuits.

With so many things on our hands, we are constantly juggling our piorities.

We are distracted. We cannot focus on a single course.

We like the hi-tech term "muilti-tasking". However, it is not a pretty thing to split your life into many tiny 'windows'.

What choices are you making today?
Mary had chosen the only one thing needful.
She had made the wise choice.

Life is a choice.
We all love to make choices. We equate "choice" as "freedom".

If we are not allowed to make our choices, then our freedom have been comprimised in some degree.

When someone breaks the law of society and is imprisoned, his freedom of choice is being restricted. He no longer has the privilage to make the usual choices of his physical realm. He simply cannot choose where he likes to go or when to do a certain things. His choices has been denied.

No one wants to be a prisoner.

Often times we have become a prisoner of our 'self'.

Actually, people around us know us by the series of choices that we are making. The choices we make in this life reflect what we want and who we really are as a person.

We should choose wisely and carefully guard our right to choose.

Mary has chosen to devote her time & life to Jesus.

Won't you?