Hi, and welcome to the Five Word Prayers Daily, a five day a week, daily devotional where we share the word, prayers, and our heart.

I'm Lisa Whittle, and I welcome you to just five minutes with me, which I trust and pray will be five minutes well spent.

Are you missing out on Jesus?

You might say no at first, but what if the relationship he has always wanted to have with you you're missing out on because you've settled for a lesser, quicker, more watered down one? Before we go into the

weekend, let's spend just a couple of minutes really focusing on what we might be missing out on

with the God of the universe. Oh, ooh. I'm reminded today of this story in Luke 10 where Jesus is on the earth doing traveling ministry,

and he's on his way to Jerusalem.

And it says in verse 38 and beyond, as Jesus and the disciples continued on their way to

Jerusalem, they came to a certain village where a woman named Martha welcomed him into her home.

Her sister Mary sat at the Lord's feet, listening to what he taught, but Martha was distracted

by the big dinner she was preparing. She came to Jesus and said, Lord, doesn't it seem unfair to you that my

sister just sits here while I do all the work? Tell her to come and help me. But the Lord said to her,

my dear Martha, you are worried and upset over all these details. There's only one thing worth

being concerned about. Mary has discovered it, and it will not be taken away from her.

It's a familiar passage, I think, the Mary and Martha story, and it will not be taken away from her. It's a familiar passage, I think,

the Mary and Martha story, and I'm not here to shame Martha because, look, I have been her far too

many times. In fact, just the other day, I had to stop and really evaluate where my doing and being

with God was, and I had to repent because my doing for God was outweighing my being with him.

It's something that I think is so easy to fall into for a lot of us.

And one of the things I love about God the very most is how he's always there for me.

But in that, I can't then take that for granted or treat it lightly because he is the great God of the universe

and he longs to have a relationship with me where I'm not in a hurry to run off, but rather

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