The Battle Within (Romans 6:16)

 

The Battle Within

Here at home, I do some shores and one of them is washing dishes.  As it happened, I was having my devotion time with the Lord.  In the back of my mind, I was also thinking about washing the dishes.

During that time, I waited on the Lord, which meant waiting for his timing.  Instead of rushing from my quiet time to wash the dishes. 

Finally, through his voice in my spirit he prompted me to start the dishes.

It made me think of this incident between Martha and Mary (Luke 10:38-42)

Martha was busy with the shores around the home and Mary had chosen to spend time at the feet of Jesus.  In verse 42 Jesus even tells Martha that Mary has chosen what is better.

I suppose there need to be a balance, we could be so busy that we forget to spend time with Jesus or vice versa.  The balance comes with practice.  As for myself I have been a Christian for over 40 years, and I am still learning from him the obedience to His Spirit’s promptings.  The solution is to be born again and have the Holy Spirit within you.  This is a good start!

I came up with the conclusion that the competition between those two sisters, Martha and Mary are right here within us.  Between the flesh and the spirit. In Romans 6:16, we are told: “Do you not know that the one to whom you present yourselves as slaves for obedience you are slaves of that same one whom you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or obedience resulting in righteousness?”  Not that doing shores is evil, but we must do them in obedience to the Spirit and not in the flesh. In conclusion, Martha was not evil but if she had considered Jesus to be first in her life, she might have joined Jesus and Mary on the sofa, and they would have both learned from Jesus.  So as a priority and a goal in our lives we should all put our listening to Jesus as a priority.