And then Jesus turned to her and said those gentle words which have been a lesson to busy, bustling people all these hundreds of years: "Martha, Martha, you are too much troubled over these many things; only one thing is needful, and Mary has chosen the good part which shall never be taken away from her."
SHE WAS NEAR JESUS, EAGERLY LISTENING.
Do you ask, children, what that one thing is?
It is learning of Jesus, and hearing His voice.
Even if everything else is lost to us, if we have Jesus we can be happy. Even the poorest and most wretched person in the world, who has heard the voice of Jesus, has the "one thing" which will make him happy here, and will give him endless joy by and by.
[IX. The Temptation]
Directly after the Lord Jesus had been baptized, and God had spoken out of heaven saying He was His beloved Son, the Holy Spirit led Jesus into the wilderness to be tempted by Satan.
Perhaps you ask, dear children, "Why must Jesus, the Holy One, be tempted by Satan?"
I think it was for two reasons: that He might be our perfect example in everything; and that He might show us the way to conquer Satan.