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The Thing that is Needed...



Luke 10:42 New International Version (NIV)

42 but few things are needed—or indeed only one.[a] Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her.”

During this time of COVID-19 quarantine, I can't help but think of how I've failed. Of course, I am enjoying this time as most others, spending time with my family and rooting deeper in the things most important. But there is a sense of gloom around it all. There is an air of fear. I am sick and have been so for weeks. The elderly are dying. And we are all in our houses getting ghostly white, pale from lack of exposure.

It is in this state that I think of my falling short. And I consider my distaste for appointed work. I would much rather do the work of my own choosing, but in that I show myself a bit of a selfish leader; a great leader does the thing that needs to be done, and makes that the thing that he most desires.

As I thought about doing the thing most needed, I considered the conditions that give rise to satisfy wholesomely that quest. It cannot be that I primarily do what is needed out of a stewardship, though that is certainly a necessary strength to develop, but rather primarily out of connecting to the need part of it. Perhaps I get twisted up the thing that others are asking for, and the thing that is needed. If I were to take time to more clearly separate the two, if only to put them back together again, I think I would find more passion for the purpose and the person.

Heavenly Father, I do not seek to be a yes man, but I want to be a far cry from a no man. Help me to look first to heaven above to assess my yes and my no. And let me not tarry unnecessarily, but to instead make a habit of decisively concluding on the way I believe You are leading. I have been wishy-washy. Let me instead be hopey-faithy. For the joy set before Him, Christ endured the cross. A servant is not greater than his Master.

In Jesus Name,

Amen

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