On Sunday we started a new series at The Community Fellowship. It is called MARGIN. Lets define the term: margin is the amount
available beyond what is necessary.
Thus, margin could be money, time, energy, rest, emotions and countless
more things. Fact is, we could all use
more margin in our lives.
Luke 10:38-42 NASB
38 Now as they were traveling along, He
entered a village; and a woman named Martha welcomed Him into her home. 39 She had
a sister called Mary, who was seated at the Lord's feet, listening to His word.
40 But
Martha was distracted with all her preparations; and she came up to Him and said, "Lord, do You
not care that my sister has left me to do all the serving alone? Then tell her
to help me." 41 But the Lord answered and said to her, "Martha, Martha, you are worried and
bothered about so many things; 42 but
only one thing is
necessary, for Mary has chosen the good part, which shall not be taken
away from her."
Mary and Martha were incredible
women. They were sisters of Lazarus, the
guy Jesus raised from the dead. These
ladies were close friends of Jesus. In the
passage above both were doing good things.
Martha was worried and working hard at having a great party at her house. Mary chose to spend time with Jesus.
Jesus said Mary made the better
choice. Mary believed that she had
enough margin, enough peace, to do what will not be offered very often. When we have margin and can use what we have
wisely, life will be much sweeter.
When we don’t have margin, our stress
levels increase big time. When we don’t
have margin, our relationships are strained and in danger. That is just a couple reasons we need margin
in our lives. Margin brings the peace of
God. Margin allows us to rest when the
war is going on around us.
My prayer is that God will allow us to
build margin into our lives. I
challenged our church family to take 5 minutes each day this week to do
nothing. Put down the cell phone. Turn off the TV. Do nothing.
Take 5 minutes to focus on God. I
challenge you to do the same.
A big thanks to Craig Groeschel and
Lifechurch.tv as well as Andy Stanley
for what I have learned about margin from them.
God is doing great things around our lives. Lets give God more room to work!
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