p. 10 | One Thing Needful

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Apr 6, 1905

One Thing Needful

WE think we need many things. Martha was burdened with a sense of need. She needed a good supper for her worthy Guest. She needed a good servant in the kitchen. She needed the help of her sister Mary. Perhaps all these things were needful to a certain degree, but there was one thing so much more needful that these minor matters were not worthy to be considered in comparison. Mary rightly apprehended the relations of things. She chose intimate fellowship with her Lord.

We can do without many things which seem to be needful. We can do without riches, without luxuries, without the comforts of life, and perhaps be quite as well off. We can do without health, even life itself may be taken away, and we shall not suffer real loss. But we can not do without God. This is the good part. This is the one thing needful. It is needful for salvation, needful for happiness, needful for this world and the world to come.—N. Y. Christian Advocate.