Insecurity Shape

 

Insecurity

Shape

Martha’s house and hospitality was needed

A meal was needed

It all seems to be more important to Martha at the time

Than the reason Jesus was there at her house

As you and I discover our shape

We need to be careful we do not become distracted from the purpose

Our purpose is to use our abilities, our “shape”

In a way that allows Jesus to be in our lives so that He can serve others

How does your shape serve others in a way that allows them

To be with Jesus and learn from Him?

This is how we glorify God

We love and serve 

 

 

Shape

 

All solid things have shape.

 

Liquids and Gases do not have their own shape.

 

They get their shape from the container they are in.

 

A shape is something with external form,

contours, or outline of something or someone.

 

As children we learn about shapes.

 

Tupperware has made a ball

in the 1970’s to teach shapes.

 

 

We learn to identify shapes

and where they fit.

 

You and I were shaped by God

in our mother’s womb.

 Psalms 139

 

We are shaped with fingers, feet, and a body.

 

Though we all have a body…

 

 Your body is a ‘one of a kind’.

 

Maybe this is why the Psalmist says in Psalms 139:14…

 

I praise you because I am fearfully

and wonderfully made;

your works are wonderful,

I know that full well.

 

Maybe it has been awhile since you stopped

at the end of a day and thanked God for

the ability to do everything you did that day…

 

All the things you did with your fingers,

most of which you never gave any thought

to while you were using them.

 

For many of us starting school

was an eye-opening event.

 

We see other children, not only with

different looking bodies than ours,

but their minds are different.

 

When I started school,

 I realized math was easy for me.

 

 But spelling and reading was hard.

 

It is clear to see none of us

came off an assembly line.

 

Everyone of us is handmade and special.

 

Discovering our shape helps us find

our purpose and add meaning to life.

 

Therefore, you were created for a purpose.

 

Too often, we look at purpose

as something future.

 

Like something we are to accomplish…

 

 Instead of seeing our purpose as using

what God gave us on a daily bases

to glorify God and serve others.

 

Two of Jesus’ friends were

sisters, Mary and Martha.

 

Mary loved to socialize and

Martha loved the kitchen.

 

Mary loved to learn and share with others.

 

Martha loved to give a good

meal and desserts to others.

 

These rolls came naturally and both

found purpose in what they did.

 

One day Martha opened up her home

to Jesus and was cooking up a storm.

 

The duties of feeding a group of

people became overwhelming.

 

Verse 40 of Luke 10 gives us some

very important information…

 

But Martha was distracted by all

the preparations that had to be made.

 

“Martha was distracted”

 

Sometimes we can become so comfortable in

our shape or giftings, we miss our purpose.

 

Martha was doing a good thing.

 

But Martha felt Mary should

be doing the same thing.

 

Martha’s meal preparation

was a good thing.

 

 But its purpose was to give others the

opportunity to be with Christ and learn.

 

She went to Jesus to complain

about her sister, Mary.

 

She said to Jesus…

 

 “Tell Mary to help me in the kitchen.”

 

  Jesus replied…

 

"Martha, Martha," the Lord answered,

"you are worried and upset about many things,

but only one thing is needed.

Mary has chosen what is better,

and it will not be taken away from her."

Luke 10:41-42

 

Martha was distracted from the “one thing”…

 

 The “better thing”…

 

Serving Jesus, so others may grow in Him.

 

Martha’s house and hospitality was needed.

 

A meal was needed.

 

It all seems to be more important to

Martha at the time, than the reason

Jesus was there at her house.

 

As you and I discover our shape…

 

 We need to be careful we do not

become distracted from the purpose.

 

Our purpose is to use our abilities, our “shape”…

 

 In a way that allows Jesus to be in

our lives, so that He can serve others.

 

How does your shape serve others in a way that

allows them to be with Jesus and learn from Him?

 

This is how we glorify God.

 

We love and serve.

 

 

Scripture Reading

 

Luke 10:38-42 NIV

 

38 As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him. 39 She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord's feet listening to what he said. 40 But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made. She came to him and asked, "Lord, don't you care that my sister has left me to do the work by myself? Tell her to help me!"

 

41 "Martha , Martha ," the Lord answered, "you are worried and upset about many things, 42 but only one thing is needed. Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her."