Christ doesn't want us to compare each other! He wants us to be the best US that we can possibly be.
In Luke 10: 38-42 Christ is visiting Mary and Martha. Martha is bustling around the kitchen busy at work preparing a meal for the hungry travelers. Martha is a human DOING. Mary is sitting at Christ's feet eager to learn and content to sit back and relax with the weary travelers. Mary is a human BEING. Each of these women have strengths, but they also have weaknesses. As Mary is sitting down relaxing, Martha asks Christ if He could please tell Mary to get to work! There is much to be done, and Mary isn't helping at all. Martha is accusing Mary, and one of the characteristics of Christ is that he never agrees with the accuser and so Christ says, "Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things: But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her."
I have never really understood what this story was trying to teach us until I took this New Testament class. Each person has different strengths and weaknesses and here we see Mary and Martha's different talents. The problem comes about when Martha tries to make Mary more like herself! We need to let each person in this world be themselves and the world will be a much happier place to dwell. Christ probably would have said the same thing to Mary if Mary had tried to make Christ get Martha to sit down and relax. The problem wasn't that Martha was a DOER, it was that she was trying to get MARY to become a DOER. We should accept those around us for the qualities and strengths that they possess and we shouldn't get down on ourselves when we don't fit some sort of "societal mold."
YOU ARE LOVED! MWAH!!!
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