Two Kinds of Believers?

Luke 10:38-42

"Now as they went on their way, Jesus entered a village. And a woman named Martha welcomed him into her house. And she had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord's feet and listened to his teaching. But Martha was distracted with much serving. And she went up to him and said, 'Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? tell her then to help me.' But the Lord answered her, 'Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things, but one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, which will not be taken away from her'. "

Jesus does not want a domesticated woman. He wants a worshiper, even though He loves both the same. The nature of this passage is not so much about the object of worship, Jesus, as it is about the worshiping subjects. The subjects are the recepients of the blessing of gazing upon the face of Christ.

The minds of Mary and Martha were in two different places. Martha's mind was busy about the mundane. She thought she was assigned the all-imporant task of preparing the room for the Kings of kings. The problem is she thought she was assigned the chores for the kingdom, and she even wanted this perceived assignment to come upon Mary. Martha wanted Mary to share in her burden. The characteristics of Martha's frame were worry, fear, anxiety, and many such things. She thought her will was the perfect will of Christ. She was wrong.

I can only picture the placid nature of Mary opposed to the worry of Martha. Mary was simply loving the best she knew how at that point. Martha thought she was loving God and doing the best for the kingdom. She was missing out on the face of God promised to the ancient Hebrews in which many righteous men yearned to look.

I believe this passage as far as I know in part is revealing something critical in part. It reveals a type of temporal loss to the sincere believer. The paradigm in the flesh is service for the kingdom. Doing, doing, doing, when Christ calls us to be, be, be, a worshiper. Mary reveals the tranquil nature of the one gazing upon the face of God. The perfect will of God is so simple, yet we complicate it.

The Lord pity the domesticated ones of which I have been apart.