When Wheels Wobble

We have a saying in our family,

I am easy to please, as long as I get my way.

I think that Martha would fit right in with the rest of us. She is easy to please as long as everything goes according to her plan.

And who could question her plan?!!!

There is an important job to be done. God in the flesh showed up on Martha's doorstep hungry. What can be more important than serving the Lord Himself in His moment of human need? And who can be a better person to do this important job than Martha?  She is the hostest to the mostest.

If God is hungry, she is going to feed Him alright!

A thought that perhaps He might be hungry for her companionship as much or more than the roast and potatoes never seem to cross Martha’s busy mind.

She rolls up her sleeves, scrolls down the list, checks things off.

Everything goes smoothly for a time. The sky is the limit as to what Martha can accomplish in a day if everything goes according to the plan. If life cooperates...

But life rarely does.

Life tends to have wobbly wheels that seem to fall off at the most inopportune time.

The roast gets burnt inside the oven as the guest ring the doorbell.

The delivery gets cancelled.  

The child is of the ‘wrong’ temperament.

The spouse is not what we imagined him or her to be.

The job is more than we bargained for.

The church is full of messed up people.

And when the wheels start falling off the rickety cart of life, Martha is thrown off balance along with them.

Lord, don’t You care…?

Lord, that good-for-nothing sister of mine……

Lord, since You don' t seem to be doing what You are supposed to do, I am going to tell You what You should be doing right now so we can get right along with my plan!

And the meal becomes more important than the people who eat it; the house more important than the people who live in it; and the people around us are nothing more but tools we can use to accomplish our mission.