Prepare Him Room: Perfectly Imperfect (Luke 10:38-42)

Jesus arrived at a village where a woman named Martha “opened her home to him” and his disciples. “Opened her home” is a term of hospitality. So when Jesus shows up, Martha got to work, unlike her sister Mary who was not helping at all!  Jesus says, “Martha, Martha, you are worried and upset about many things”. The problem here isn’t that Martha is serving, it’s that she’s worried and upset, consumed by the kind of anxiety that Jesus speaks of in Matthew 6. We worry about so much - what we’ll eat and what we'll wear and whether we’ll have enough. But Jesus says that we are so valuable to God. God loves us and cares for us, more than we can even imagine, therefore, Jesus says, “Do not worry, do not be anxious about your life.”  When we live apart from the reality of God’s faithful love for us, we’ll be so worried about ourselves and our performance that we’ll miss the grace that’s already ours in Christ. We’ll be so worried about getting things just right that we’ll forget that the whole point of being a good host is to extend hospitality to the guests who’ve gathered to be with us.