Holiness In A Chaotic, Digital World (part 2)

So we have been taking a look at why is everybody so busy and why do people often say that? And why am I doing this talk? Just a quick overview. People often say they're very busy and they also say that they're very busy to read the word or that they have any time to really pray.

People also say that life is very chaotic, very perturbed, and that everything they do seems to be passive, right? That things are thrown at them rather than they taking an active approach and doing things.

And another thing that I often hear people saying is that they have a shorter attention span or a lack of focus. I was sad but encouraged to hear that a lot of people came up to me last week after I did part one and said they are struggling with this area and they were glad I'm doing this talk.

So what did we look at last week? We looked at, we defined holiness because without understanding what that is, it's hard to know what is chaotic and what is not and what is the difference between justification and sanctification.

Just to be clear about the differences between the two, no amount of order in our lives can save us, right? If we had everything properly scheduled and that would bring us salvation, we wouldn't need Christ.

But I want to make one thing very clear, the difference between the two, you cannot save yourself and sanctification does not save you, right? Only Christ pleased the Father enough, only Christ can be the Lamb and the High Priest.

We fall absolutely short. So we need to get that very clear. We also looked at a few questions. I did a small questionnaire last week to see how many of us are really busy or chaotic and there were a lot of giggles and there were a lot of nods last week.

So I don't know if it resonated well with you guys or not. And then I ended it by looking at how do we prepare for worship? Why is that important? Why do we often say we're too busy to even prepare for worship and how we can do that?

Stress, Attention Span, and the Cost of Busyness

Okay, let's look at some quick numbers. I'm gonna be on this very briefly. But as a world, not just America, as we get more globalized, things are more chaotic, things are more busy. Did you know that commuters have more stress than fighter pilots and riot police?

I didn't know that. But I just started, I just moved to Cambridge for work and I understand that. Now, here's what's interesting. When you're so stressed, the brain goes into a light hypnotic trance as a defense mechanism.

Now, if you're a Christian, you don't like the word hypnotic or trance. Those are two words you don't wanna hear, right? So along with that stress, not only do you go into that defense mechanism, your heart beats at 145 per minute.

What's the normal heart rate of a person who's calm and? 70, 65, right? So 140, I mean, 160 is what I hit when I jog. 145, when you're sitting still in traffic or stressed, is very high, right? Now, sinfully busy people, sinfully busy people experience the same amount of stress.

So that is something that is dangerous. We work long hours. There's nothing wrong with working hard, but we work such long hours that as a nation and again, as a world, a lot of people are getting far less sleep.

They're severely sleep deprived. And what does that have to do with sanctification? Well, it affects the way you think, it affects the way you pray, it affects the way your relationships go, right? How often do you snap at somebody because you haven't slept for three days?

And then it takes four years to fix that relationship, right? So it's a big problem. Other numbers, a Harvard study showed that people's attention spans are decreasing so much that most people cannot pay attention more than 15 minutes at a time.

That's a problem. Our sermons go more than 50 minutes. So I hope none of us are dozing off or checking Facebook when Pastor Steve has done 15 minutes. But it's a big problem, right? It's a big problem.

And most of that problem with short attention span comes from rapid browsing, right? We go through articles so quickly, we get our information so quickly, we don't have time to really sit and focus on things.

And I'll talk about that more later. But these are big numbers coming out of a lot of these studies. Now, I would argue one thing that we are saved, some of us are. We are elect. We do have the power of the Holy Spirit.

Well, we're human beings. And if we neglect these laws, we're going to get hit as well. It's not like, yeah, we're saved. We can work 24 hours, don't sleep. Check our phones all day, be online all day and think that that's going to be fine for our bodies.

No, we're going to get affected by it. Next thing, multitasking. People often boast about multitasking, don't they? They say, I'm an excellent multitasking individual. But did you know that the brain and the computer works the same way?

I'm not going to go a lot into computer because even though I'm a scientist, I know I'm not going to go into that. But the way the program, just to let you know how computers work, they don't really multitask between the programs.

What they do is each, the computer does a computation one at a time, but they switch so rapidly between the programs, you can't realize, you don't realize that it's doing so many things, right? You're watching YouTube, you're on Facebook, you're reading a sermon, all of those things together, but you think the computer is doing all of those things, but it's actually doing one computation at a time, but it's switching so rapidly.

The brain cannot handle too many things very well, especially as Christians. If we are to do few things well for the glory of God, multitasking is not going to help us do 101 things and do it well for the glory of God, right?

Again, I'm not going to be very specific about applications, each of us are different. My goal here is to bring some warnings, some exhortations, and you guys have to take it back home, think about it for your own homes and families and see how it works.

But these are interesting numbers. Okay, let's go straight into it. Let's look at some of the dangers of extreme busyness or sinful business, okay? The physical damages are pretty obvious, right? They're pretty blaring, but I would argue for us in particular, the spiritual damages are much, much more grievous.

Joy, Affection, and the Idolatry of New Stuff

First, it robs us of joy, it steals us of joy. If you read Philippians 4, it tells us how a Christian life should be marked by, what should it be marked by? I gave a hint. What should the Christian life be marked by?

Philippians 4 .4, sorry. Be anxious for none, good. Specifically, joy, right? We're marked by joy, we look at Galatians 5 .22. Our lives are to taste like joy. And then we look at John 15. We're supposed to be filled with the fullness of joy.

But what happens is when you're crazy busy and extremely stressed, it robs us of joy, right? I'm not saying that ministry is robbing you off of joy. I'm saying sinful business, which we'll go into in just another slide.

It really robs us off of that joy that we need as a Christian. But now my point gets even more important. Next, it steals our hearts, it distracts us, it turns our affections, right? Even if we are saved, it can cause us a massive amount of distraction, right?

We have responsibilities, right? We're members of society, we live under a government. We are parents, spouses, employees. We have responsibilities, we have things to do. There's nothing wrong with that.

But when we take on a lot of additional responsibilities, and then we idolize it, right? We prioritize it so high. Do you think that those things don't own us? No, they do, they steal our hearts. They distract us, they rob us.

They take our affection, right? So it's an area that we need to be careful with. Now, it's not just material things that steal our hearts, right? It's not just material things, but one thing we do notice is we get busy because we want a lot of new stuff.

I'm trying to make it very simple here, okay? We want a lot of new stuff. In other words, we do covet, which is a sin, right? It's a sin that Christ paid for, and indeed there is forgiveness. But why are we so busy?

Because we want new stuff. But did you realize, and I know I'm realizing this more and more, new stuff requires maintenance. New stuff makes us more busy. I'm not saying in and of itself, the new stuff is wrong.

Again, the problem is not the new stuff. The problem is our hearts and the way we look at these things. We work hard to get more stuff. We get more stuff and then we work hard to maintain that new stuff.

And we're very, very, very, very, very, very, very busy. So, but again, like I said, it's not just material. We want people to like us and think good about us. I'll talk about this more later. And D. Young makes this point in his book, Crazy Busy.

Busyness kills more Christians than bullets. Oddly, he doesn't mention a lot about why he made that statement. So I'll make some additions based on my own experience. So how many of us lose Sundays because we're very concerned about the 5 ,000 we have to feed after we go home, right?

We're hosting a big lunch, right? We've been thinking about it the whole week. Nothing wrong with hosting, nothing wrong with feeding 5 ,000. But what's the issue here? The whole time you're thinking about the lunch, right?

The whole time you're thinking about the lunch, when, as we spoke about last week, our minds and our hearts should be engaged in the service. Busyness should not rob us of the one thing, that is serving God with all of our hearts and all of our minds and all of our souls.

So I don't want the ladies to think I'm only picking on you. So here you go, guys. The other thing that I hear a lot about is a lot of people come up to me after church and say, oh, are you ready for the games?

And it's starting up, right? Preseason's over, NFL, and here come the games, yay, right? And one thing we notice is a lot of people are so busy thinking about the games and talking about it, whether it's playing fantasy sports or talking about the stats and getting pumped up for the game.

You're really, really busy thinking about it, and it really distracts us. Again, the games are not wrong, fantasy sports is not wrong. But when you're thinking about it, even on a Sunday, immediately after a wonderful sermon, it's something that's to be, something we need to be cautious about.

Next, we know that when we need to, what are some of the things that people do to quieten their conscience? What are some of the things that people often do to quieten their conscience? Rationalize, that's very good, right?

You use logic to try to say it's not important. Sorry? Compared to others. Compared to others, that's very good, that's very good. You compare it to others, you try to put logic and throw it away. Corey?

Very good, thank you for stealing my point. But that's one thing that they do, right? But some of the other more difficult areas which we try to address in the church is what? Drugs, sex, other kinds of addictions are a major problem, right?

When people try to cover their conscience, they try to cover it up with alcohol and all kinds of things. But a lot of people today are trying to bury it, as Corey said, by being extremely busy. I'm not talking about working hard.

I'm not talking about serving your families and the church. I'm talking about being sinfully busy with a lot of things that don't really help you glorify God or help others. So that's what I'm trying to talk to.

Pride and People-Pleasing as Root Causes

Okay, now what is the cause? I know a lot of people were waiting for this. They came up to me and said, please tell me the causes right now. And also give me the name of those apps you were talking about.

So let me drive straight into one of the main causes. Believe it or not, it's pride. We all think we're better than we are, don't we? I mean, we think we're the best engineers. We think we're the best parents.

And quite often, we honestly do believe that without us, the world will not survive, right? We really do. We really look at it and say, oh, how will this earth revolve if I don't wake up at 5 a .m. And watch NFL, right?

It's very, very, it's very important to understand this. But let's look at the context of the church. In the church, do we function as individuals? No, what do we function as? We function as a body, right?

We have a head. His name is Christ, right? He gives us direction. He is our identity. And then we have members, right? So we all need each other. We can't do everything on our own, right? But sometimes we're so proud, we want to do everything on our own and end up being overstressed, doing too much, and not really giving and not really believing that God can use other people who he has actually given gifts to as well to function in the church.

So there's a bad side and a good side. We want to serve a lot, but we're also doing it out of the wrong motives. Next, we love pleasing others. I come from the East, right? India tends to be a culture where you do everything to please people, right?

You get married to please people. You choose your bride to please people. You go to college to please people, right? I would say sometimes you wake up in the morning to please people, right? It's a big thing.

But part of it is a pride issue because we want people to love us, right? But there's something wrong when you look at it from a Christian perspective. And that is, as Christians, our main desire is to do good to others, right?

Because of who we are in Christ, because of his finished work on the cross, and because we want to see him glorified. But pride is intent on making ourselves look good, right? We want to be the hero, not only at work and at home and solving all the problems.

We want to be the hero everywhere, even in the church. We don't care if it's robbing glory off of God as long as we get the glory, right? And that's a big issue. I'm not saying it's necessarily an issue for everybody here, but I've seen that to be an issue at some of the people that I've known, and even reading several books on the topic, I see that it's an issue.

But if we're always busy with trying to get the glory for ourselves, not only is that dangerous and sinful, I would also argue that if we're here and there doing these other things, we're absent from the lives of the people who need us the most, right?

We're absent and we're useless in the lives of the people who need our time, our love, our care, right? And sometimes that's even people here. Okay, any questions or comments about that, that particular point on pride?

It's something that I had to work on quite a bit, two, three years ago, that I realized that I was really busy with a lot of things. And I'm not saying that I've mastered everything, but by the grace of God, I've grown in his love and through the word over the last two years in this area.

So did you guys have anything to add about pride or did I say everything on the topic? All right, let's look at the screen time. Let's look at dangers of screen time and what it is. I love technology, I love gadgets, right?

Part of my job is to make the world a more connected place. So I'm not the cause of the problem, I'm helping, right? We can communicate with people today. I don't know if you were a stock investor 20 years ago, did you know it probably takes you a year to make an informed decision about one stock?

Now we can make informed decisions, obviously, if you know what you're doing as well. In two hours, you can make a decision, right? The internet is a wonderful place. We have great resources, but I think as Christians, we have, it's a great way to spread the gospel.

It's a great way to read articles, to see how people are doing around the world who are fellow brothers and sisters in Christ, right? It's a wonderful technology, right? So without further ado, and I know the only reason most of you are here today, for the apps, let's start with, I have three apps.

I'm gonna go through it quick. I'm not saying that these are the only apps that are out there. These are the ones I use, and they really help me. First thing is, it's called Prayer Mate. It's available on all the mobile devices.

What's good about this, I had a very long list. Whenever I come to BBC in the morning, I write down, people tell me, can you pray for this? I'm sorry, I don't remember every time that people say, so I write it down.

It's not that I'm old, it's just I can't remember everything that people tell me. Now that was great, but the list got getting, kept getting bigger and bigger, and I couldn't prioritize, and I realized I was, I couldn't keep up changing the list.

This app is very good. It's a good way of using technology. You can set priorities. You can set people by family, by their groups, by needs, illness. It'll remind you, yes, it'll pop up and remind you, hey, did you pray today?

It won't, I'm sorry to say this, it won't pray for you. But it will help you in your prayer life. The next is any calendar app. I mean, if you just throw things on the calendar and you schedule, if you schedule a week ahead, guess what'll happen?

You can schedule, at least from my perspective, you can schedule your time in the Word and your time to sleep. Two things that three years ago I struggled with, right? Because I was always awake and always doing things.

So a calendar, as silly as it may sound, it need not be digital. It could be something that you put on as a hard copy. It's a great way to schedule important things in your life so that before you wake up in the morning, the scores of the news and all the painful things around us don't distract us from what is important.

Third app, and my final app. How many of you like memorizing scripture? It's not a good question to ask in a church. Scripture Typer, it's called Scripture Typer. It's free, there's a paid version, but the paid version gives you really nothing.

It's a fantastic scripture memory app, right? And I often carry the, I used to carry this pile of Navigator cards with me. Very difficult to carry them around, right? And if your wallet gets stolen, you're remorseful for the rest of the year.

So it's, this is a very handy app. It allows you to customize lists, but it also allows you to download other people's lists and you can share these scripture memory lists, right? And here's what's really good about it, and here's what's important for me.

It allows you to, it has tests, don't you love tests? It actually checks if you're doing and memorizing, and it also reminds you from time to time and checks on how you're doing with the scripture memory.

And I'm not saying it replaces fellowship or time with others if you're doing this together, but I found it very useful when those two are not readily available. If I'm on a train or if I'm sitting at the doctor's office, or even in the morning when I wake up, I can go through it and revise and practice my verses.

Screen Addiction, Sober-Mindedness, and Rhythms of Rest

Now, so those are the good things about technology, and let's go through some of the difficult things. I don't know if you know, but a few years ago in Korea, which has got a major gaming problem, video gaming problem, more than 1 ,000 addiction centers opened up, more than 1 ,000, okay?

People said that most people were online and playing games in South Korea anywhere from 10 to 12 hours a day, and it was a major problem. They could not get out. It was crippling. I would argue that things are changing for us now, not just video games.

Like people say, video games, I'm not addicted to that. That's not a problem. But there are three things that are major addictions today, social media, email, and text messaging. These are major problems.

Use them, of course. I'm not saying don't use them, but I want to bring it to your attention that this is a problem for a lot of people. It's costing billions to employers. It's definitely hurting relationships and society, but my argument is that it's hindering our sanctification.

It's hindering our time in the word, and especially when it's left unmanaged. But let me ask you a serious question. Any addiction is bad and dangerous, right? But what is so dangerous about internet-based addictions?

Are they any different? Are they different from other forms? But what is so dangerous about them? They might be just one or two points, but what do you guys think? Sorry, Suresh? It's private, excellent.

That's the first thing. I would say it's extremely private, right? Nobody else is around, nobody else sees, and you think everything is okay. Nobody knows how long you're on Facebook, and everybody's fine with it.

Ease of access. Ease of access, absolutely. It's readily available, right? Our watches can now talk, right? And they have been for a few years. Soon, I'm sure there'll be ways to, with IOT and internet of things, our shoes will too be able to talk and communicate to doctors to see how we're doing with our energy and what the likelihood of cancer is.

But that's a major issue. Somebody else, Taylor? There's an unlimited supply of it. It's on and on and on and on. And I make this point later, but I'll say it now. The internet is like being in a party 24, seven, 365 days a year.

Nobody likes to leave a party early, right? If you don't want to leave early, then we don't want to leave at all, right? So people feel like they're always, they need to be there. How can I get disconnected?

Because everybody else in the world is online, right? And it's a major problem. The usage itself is not a problem, but it's the uncontrolled usage that I argue is affecting our sanctification. And although, also, I said this before, what's dangerous about internet-based addictions?

I'm sure this is true for other forms, but it affects our attention span, right? We don't have, we're not able to focus much on things as much as we used to, right? And this is not just affecting 30-year-olds or 40-year-olds.

This is affecting 70-year-old men and this is affecting 10-year-olds. 10-year-olds are getting affected by this problem because they have no control of screen time and they can't pay attention to anything more than 15 to 20 minutes, and then they're done.

They need to shift. Okay, so I just want to say this. The solution is not to throw away your gadgets and live in the Pacific, right? It's not to delete your Facebook account or throw away your phones.

I'm definitely not advocating that. The problem is our hearts. The problem is us, right? If you haven't had the chance to listen to a no-compromise radio, Pastor Mike does speak about this. He doesn't speak specifically about addiction in that form, but there are a few episodes where he talks about Facebook time.

And it's helpful to read that. And I don't know if you guys have noticed, but we have a new church website and there's a new no-compromise radio website. You can now search. So if you just type Facebook and no-compromise radio, you get the whole list.

So I strongly encourage you to read that for yourself. Right? Let's do a verse. 1 Peter 1. 1 Peter 1. Let's look at 1 Peter 1, verse 13. Can somebody read 1 Peter 1, verse 13? Thank you. This book, believe it or not, talks about holiness.

And the background is they're in some persecution and suffering. And Peter is calling them to be holy and sober. He's calling them to be what? Not under the influence of anything. He's telling them to be alert and thinking logically and coherently, which we cannot do, which there's a lot of screen time and any addiction robs us off, right?

Being sober is often associated with alcohol, which is also another form of addiction. But screen time is also a major cause of losing your sobriety. As Christians, we all have to be sober. We have to keep our eyes on the cross.

We have to keep our lives aligned with the word of God. We can't be controlled by these other things, right? Just like I mentioned before, how the brain goes into this hypnotic trance when it's stressed.

The problem with that is, again, what? You're losing, you're giving up sobriety, and that is an issue. Now, there's another thing that a lot of screen time can do. It can cause us to be indifferent to others' problems and indifference.

It can cause us to be spiritually forgetful, right? That's a major issue. We can be so overwhelmed by the news around us, so overwhelmed by the technology around us, so overwhelmed by what people are saying and doing, we can be indifferent to the things that we really need to be focused on, right?

We can stop praying because we're so overwhelmed by the shootings and the killings and the celebrity news and the gossip and who's doing what and who's saying what, that it can make us spiritually lazy because we're so overwhelmed by things we shouldn't be overwhelmed by.

I'm not saying we don't care, we do. And that's one thing I do right here, right? We do care about those things and we pray about those sufferings. And if we can do something about it, we do. But what's happening is when you're always looking at the news and the news is popping up, when you're at work, when you're in church, when you're at the dinner table, you are being overwhelmed by things that are not very helpful.

Kevin DeYoung argues about this. The screen time causes us to be busy, but not properly with a hobby or recreation or play. For many people, he continues, the chaos in their lives is caused by this. They feel like they're doing something important when they're browsing, but they're aimlessly doing nothing important.

DeYoung also mentions, we are always engaged with our thumbs, but rarely engaged with our thoughts. We keep downloading information, but rarely get down to the depths of the heart. I don't know how we can manage this perfectly, but there's one thing that we do at home, at least it works for us.

And you can adapt this if you need to, or you can pray and think about what's good. People tend to text and email me all the time. At work, it's stopped significantly, reduced significantly. But we have a rule that once we get home, at least when we're sitting down for devotion, when we're sitting down for dinner, we put the phone away, right?

It's helped us a lot. It's made our conversations better. And it also teaches the kids that the phone is not our God. I think that's very, very important. We also do things like when we go on vacation, we put the phone away.

We put the devices away. The only time we take it up is when we need to, when we're lost and we have no idea how to get back to civilization, right? That's the only time. Again, these are not hard and fast things.

These are not absolutes. I'm just saying things that have really helped me and my wife, right? The other thing is, it does things like putting your phone away, not looking at email, actually is hard, hard work.

Not looking at your phone when it's constantly beeping with a text message is absolute hard work. I'm not saying throw your phones and don't text. That's not what I'm saying. But we can't do, we're not very good at multitasking, like I said before.

We're very good at doing one thing well at a time. So I think it's fairly important to have some kind of checks and balance, something to say, let's put this away for half an hour. Let's talk face to face for half an hour or even more, right?

One thing that does affect our rest and our rhythm is how much we check the phone after 8 p .m. Not just us, but you can see that a lot of people are their sleep is affected. And when your sleep is affected, you can wake up in the morning and sit down and pray.

I'm not saying that's the only time you can pray, but for most of us, it's the most, it's not only a good time, we are most clear at that time. But when we sleep late, we can't do that, and the rest of the day seems hurried and chaotic, right?

It's a big problem. So 99 of people spend anywhere from three to four hours a night looking over the internet and doing really nothing important, right? Nothing really, but just browsing, not for information, just looking from page to page, nothing solid.

And it ruins our rhythm, it affects our schedule. And as human beings, it affects the way we think and the way we read our word and the amount of time we spend there. Just like children, I don't know, one thing I realized as a dad was consistency is very important, isn't it?

If your child's schedule is changing every day, she or he gets more, I don't know what the word is, fussy, angry, insecure, guess what? We as adults need the same kind of rhythm and schedule to our day, but we don't have that rhythm if we're constantly distracted by every text and every email that comes our way, right?

We can put things, there are fantastic applications that Google Chrome and many other browsers have that actually put a time limit on how much time you spend on a specific website. Two years ago, I had to put that on ESPN .com because I was constantly checking the Wimbledon score, right, it didn't matter where I was, I was constantly checking the score, so I put a limit on five minutes total in a day.

I'm not saying I'm trying to be a monk and move somewhere where there's no internet, no, but I needed something to help me realize that this is taking too much of my time. Okay, I wanna read straight from one of the things that he said, page 92 of Crazy Busy, talking more about how we don't have a rhythm.

Many of us are less busy than we think, but life feels constantly overwhelming because our days and weeks and years have no rhythm. Technology is at work, we use technology all the time at work, and we blend it with the rest in a big, confusing mush.

We never quite leave work when we're at home, so the next day we have a hard time getting back to work when we are at work. We have no routine, no order to our days, we're never completely on and never totally off, so we dawdle on YouTube for 20 minutes at the office and then catch up on emails for 40 minutes in front of the TV at home.

Perhaps this arrangement works for some employers and may feel freeing for many employees, but over time, most of us work less effectively, whether it's in the home or out of the home, and find our work less enjoyable when there's no regular, concentrated, deliberate work.

I think that's even more true when it comes to our spiritual lives. We never really put things away. I've been in situations where there were several brothers, where we were in a Bible study, they were in the Bible study, they were checking the latest scores, and they were trying to set up a restaurant reservation for their wives the next day.

I'm not blaming them, I'm not saying it's all wrong, but I find it hard to do more than one thing at a time properly, and I don't know how these guys are managing it, right? So, I'm coming towards the end.

Paul, Martha and Mary, and the One Thing Needed

I don't want us to think that ministry is wrong or spending time with people is wrong. I'm talking more about doing things only for pleasing people, and wanting everybody to praise us as the only motives for picking up things to do.

We have a great example of one man who suffered greatly in the Bible, and he never gave up on serving people. Look, as long as we're in ministry, as long as we're serving people, there's going to be some kind of suffering, right?

Our sins, their sins, our emotion, their emotion, those should not prevent us from being in ministry, or giving our lives to serving and loving and caring for them, right? A lot of people need that. That's the way the church, God has made the church, but there's nothing wrong with being busy, but there's something wrong with being sinfully busy, right?

If you look at the life of Paul, he was always busy, wouldn't you say? Wouldn't you say he was a super, super busy man? I mean, if he was alive, I think his tweet, he'd get most of the tweets, and we'd be all following him, wouldn't we?

But he did busyness correctly. If he wasn't preaching the gospel, he was trying to stay alive. If he wasn't building a tent, he was defending his conscience and his actions. If he wasn't in a shipwreck, he was busy in prison or being put to prison.

Yet he stayed focused and on track. He loved the Lord and knew that dealing with people was messy and would take a lot of time and effort. He never stopped. Paul was busy in the right ways. So, I've got a few minutes to give you one good solution that'll help.

Luke chapter 10, verse 38 to 42. This is the story of Martha and Mary, right? If you were here about three weeks ago, Elder Harry taught on this. It was a wonderful message. Can somebody quickly tell me what was the one point that you got out of that message?

What did you learn out of that text? Joni. Right, right. Thank you, that's a very good summary, right? I like also what Elder Harry said. He said a lot of people, and even Martha, she was so distracted by everything around her, right?

She was very anxious. She was very tight, right? Now, I like the way it's said. Martha is definitely doing something good. We all have to serve. We have to cook food and serve and do things, right? But in this particular context, Mary is doing what is best.

She's sitting at the feet of the Lord, and she's praying, right? She's praying, she's learning from the Lord. Now, I'm not saying we all leave our jobs, abandon our houses, move to the Cape, not to the Cape, sorry, move to the Grand Canyon and sit with a tent and a board that says, Linton told me to do this, right?