Moses began running back to the mountain! He was going right toward the Professor, Shane, Shelly, and the kitten on the bicycle/time machine! The Professor said, “Ooops!” and tried to pedal faster to get out of the way. Moses was getting closer, so the Professor shifted the bicycle/time machine into high gear!
Then it happened… The bicycle began bouncing like a toad in a washing machine! There was a blinding flash of light and a loud noise like a turtle singing! Suddenly Moses, the crowd of people, and Mount Sinai disappeared and….
They were inside a house, headed straight for a wall! The Professor skidded the bicycle/time machine sideways to stop, and they knocked a nice vase off a shelf! The vase shattered into about 273 pieces! The Professor said, “Ooops!” Just then a woman came running into the room! She was angry and had a broom in her hands! She began beating the Professor with the broom and yelled, “What are you doing in here? You have made a mess and broken my best vase! Who invited you anyway?” She looked at the bicycle/time machine and screamed, “Get this…. this thing out of my house!” She hit the Professor a few more times with the broom. The Professor said, “Ooops!” Shane, Shelly, and the kitten quietly took the bicycle/time machine outside. That woman seemed extremely mad, and maybe even dangerous, so Shelly turned the handle on the side of the bicycle/time machine so that they could leave in a hurry if they had to.
Just then a dog happened to come down the street. He saw the kitten, began to bark, and run toward the kitten! The kitten saw the dog coming, and she turned around and ran back into the house! The dog chased the kitten into the house! Shane and Shelly followed the dog and the kitten into the house. They wanted to catch them so that they would not cause any more trouble! They were too late! The dog and kitten were running around and around the room! They were jumping onto furniture and knocking things over! Fur was flying everywhere! The kitten jumped onto the Professor’s head! The dog jumped onto the Professor and almost knocked him over! The Professor said, “Ooops!” Just then the angry woman hit the dog with her broom! The dog yelped and ran out of the house! The woman raised here broom and took aim at the kitten, but the kitten jumped out of the way just in time and the broom smacked the Professor on the head so hard that the handle broke. The Professor said, …. nothing! The Professor did not say anything because he was now lying on the floor almost unconscious!
Suddenly the angry woman stopped and sniffed the air, then she yelled, “The food is burning!” She ran into the kitchen, and Shane, Shelly and the kitten followed her. In the kitchen, there was a big table with all the nice dishes already on it, the woman was expecting a lot of company for dinner. Immediately the kitten jumped onto the table! The woman screeched at the kitten and reached into the closet a grabbed another broom! Just as the Professor came wandering into the kitchen the angry woman tried to knock the kitten off the table with the broom! She missed, but she did knock a bunch of the dishes off the table! A big pitcher of water went flying and splashed all over the Professor when it broke! The Professor said, “Ooops! The angry woman yelled, “I’ve just about had enough!” She went stomping into another room of the house!
Shane and Shelly peeked into the other room while the Professor hid under the table. In the other room Jesus was sitting in a chair and another woman was sitting on the floor listening to Him talk. The angry woman interrupted the man and yelled, “Jesus! Don’t you care that my sister has left all the work for me to do? Tell her to help me! You would not believe the problems that I have had! Why just a minute ago…” Jesus interrupted the angry woman and said, “Martha, Martha you are so busy and worried about so many things that do not really matter. Your sister Mary has chosen to sit and listen to Me, that is the most important thing! She can listen to me as much as she wants to.”
Martha turned around and went back into the kitchen, she did not look angry anymore. She looked like she was thinking hard about what Jesus had just said to her. The Professor was still under the table, he had not heard Jesus talk to Martha, he thought that Martha was still an angry woman! He scrambled out from under the table, he was trying to head to the door and get out of the house! Unfortunately, as he stood up, his shoulder hit the edge of the table! The table tipped over, and all the rest of the dishes and the food slid onto the floor! The Professor, Shane, Shelly, and the kitten ran out of the house before Martha could get angry again! They jumped on the bicycle/time machine and began pedaling! Just as they started, here came that dog again! He saw the kitten and jumped up and tried to bite her! The kitten jumped onto the Professor’s head! The Professor tipped over backwards and almost fell off the bicycle/time machine! Shane caught the Professor so that he did not fall off! The Professor’s foot hit the gear shift lever and shifted the bicycle/time machine into high gear!
Then it happened… The bicycle began bouncing like a toad in a washing machine! There was a blinding flash of light and a loud noise like a turtle singing! Suddenly Martha and Mary’s house disappeared and….
Application:
- Read the story about Jesus at the home of Martha and Mary is found in the Bible in the book of Luke chapter 10 verses 38-42
- Jesus was not happy with the way Martha was behaving.
- Martha was so busy trying to impress Jesus with a fine meal that she forgot to spend any time with Jesus. Just think of that, Jesus was right there in her house and she had the chance to talk with Him and ask questions, and she totally missed the opportunity!
- Jesus was happy with the way Mary was behaving.
- Mary did not worry about trying to impress Jesus with a fancy meal.
- Mary chose to spend time with Jesus, talking to Him and getting her questions answered.
- Many times, all of us get so busy that we forget that the most important thing is to spend time with Jesus.
- Some of the things that keep us to busy are:
- Spending too much time with friends
- Spending too much time watching YouTube
- Spending too much time playing video games
- Spending too much time watching or playing sports
- Spending too much time on the phone
- Spending too much time watching tv
- Spending too much time sleeping
- Spending too much time listening to music
- Spending too much time ‘serving God’
- None of these things are bad, the problem comes when we spend so much time doing these (or other) activities that we do not spend any time with God.
- Jesus is up in heaven now, so He will not be coming to our house to sit down and talk, so how can we spend with Jesus?
- Reading His Word (the Bible
- Spend time praying. Not just asking for things that you want, but thanking Him for all the good things He has done for you, and just talking with Him about what is going on, right now, in your life
- Attending a good Church that teaches God’s truth from the Bible, and really paying attention to the Pastor and your Teachers.
- Listening (and singing along) to Christian music.
- Taking time to just be still and allow God to speak to your heart.
- In the Bible in the book of Psalms chapter 46 verse 10 it says:
“Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.”
- Spend time with God each day!