From Lifeway Research:
How does the fruit of patience help us cultivate a sanctifying slowness? How can those pastoring small towns use slowness to their advantage?
By Ronnie Martin
When we wrestle with slowness, we begin to see patience as a virtue that God shapes our hearts to reflect. Mary was being patient when she sat at the feet of Jesus.
I’m sure she didn’t deny that tasks needed to be accomplished so that she and Martha would be appropriately hospitable to Jesus. But she was patient about getting there. And Jesus was using her “nonproductive” patience to produce something beautiful and Christlike in her character. Mary was living out what she valued. But it would be hard to be measured if you compared it to the buffet table Martha was frantically preparing. More Here
