WORRY-FREE LIFE...:

"One thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part which shall not be taken away" (Lk 10:42).

One thing is needed for all of us. When we fail to do the needful thing, we will try to do needless things - and create worry and care.

Mary had chosen the good part and it was not to be taken away from her. Your health, wealth, family, friends, name and fame, your talent to sing or preach, will be taken away one day. But one thing will not be taken away. If we learn to sit at the feet of Jesus and hear His voice, even in Heaven we would be sitting at His feet and hearing His words. No man, no devil can take that part away from us. Oh what a blessed life this is!

This world is full of Marthas. God needs Marys to sit at the feet of Jesus and hear His word. It was not by luck that Mary got the good part. She chose it. It was not by chance but by choice.

"They come to Jesus, and see him that was possessed with the devil, and had the legion, sitting, and clothed and in his right mind" (Mk 5:15). This man could not do one thing. He climbed the mountains, climed down, ran about, etc. But one thing he couldn't do, and that was to sit. Some of us are like the mad man of Gadarenes. We have time for everything but prayer. After Jesus met the man, he was found sitting at the feet of Jesus. People came to know that he was in his right mind on seeing him sitting at the feet of Jesus.

Child of God, with all your anxiety and worrying, you are only wasting your life. Do not be like that mad man of Gadarenes. Like Mary, learn to sit at the feet of Jesus.

- TPM, Morning Manna