It is easy for our lives to get imbalanced, and we often get our priorities out of order, so we can end up doing good things, and yet still be wrong in what we do. We see this with Martha in the Gospel of Luke 10:38-42. Martha had busied herself doing a good thing, working to serve Jesus a good meal, but her priorities were out of order and her perspective of skewed, and so she was frustrated with her sister, Mary, who was not helping her, but instead was sitting at Jesus’ feet and learning from Him. When Martha confronts Jesus about the situations he gently corrects her. Sometime we need that correction. We can busy ourselves with many good things, but when those good things are priorities before spending time with God in His Word, to learn from Him, then even when we are doing good things we are wrong. God’s Word must be the priority in our lives. Before we can serve Him and others in what we do, we must learn about Him and what He says it means for us to love and serve. When we grow in our love and knowledge our Lord, through the Bible, we will be better equipped to serve.
