Is your walk with Jesus vital?  Were you more excited about Him and His word in the past? Perhaps you have grown weary in well doing? Perhaps the business of life has captured your attention and you have departed from the “better part”?

Martha was caught up in doing good things that needed to be done.  People need to eat and the day Jesus visited there was certainly a crowd to feed.  Martha saw Mary as wasting her time instead of helping.  Mary was at the feet of Jesus listening intently to every word he uttered.  Mary knew that life was in Jesus words. In fact, everything was in His words.

Martha had enough and went to Jesus asking Him to scold Mary for not helping prepare the meal.  Martha’s mind was on the present and filled with many competing thoughts telling Martha how she was the only one doing anything.  Moreover, Martha’s thoughts were telling her that Jesus should affirm that she was the only one doing anything to prepare the meal and that Jesus should join her pity party.  Jesus did not join pity parties.  If you are having a pity party, do not invite Jesus because He will be a no show.

If you are feeling like Martha, I will acknowledge life will be too much at times.  I could even join you in your pity party, but that would not truly help you.

There is a pop song containing the line “this girl is on fire”.  Fire is an interesting phenomenon; it can be the source of heat and light when you are camping; it can be the source of drive in someone’s insides that drives them to greatness; it can be the source of encouraging someone to “fire them up”.

John Wesley said, “My great fear is not that our great movement, known as the Methodists, will eventually cease to exist or one day die from the earth. My fear is that our people will become content to live without the fire, the power, the excitement, the supernatural element that makes us great.”

You need fire in your life.  Remember the two downcast men travelling on the road and Jesus began to walk with them.  The men were downcast because Jesus had been crucified.  The men did not recognize Jesus as they walked with Him.  Jesus began to unfold the scriptures concerning the Messiah from the Old Testament.  When they arrived in town, Jesus departed from them, and the men went to eat and as they ate they said, “did not our hearts burn when this man spoke.”

We need the better part, the word of God.  We cannot put the word away and become consumed with doing good things like Martha did.  We must be like the men who were given a tour of the scriptures by Jesus Himself and how their hearts burned.  Well, when you sit down with the word, Jesus Himself is revealing the scriptures to you for it is written that in the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God.  Jesus is the Word.  In the book of revelations it describes Jesus second coming as a warrior with something written on his thigh, the Word.

The prophet Jeremiah said that God’s word was like fire shut up in my bones.  I challenge you to get away and lock yourselves up with the word and you to will be encouraged on fire to continue your walk with Jesus.