Jeremiah 8:6 “I listen to their conversations, and what do I hear? Is anyone sorry for sin? Does anyone say, What a terrible thing I have done? No! All are running down the path of sin as swiftly as a horse rushing in to battle!”
My daughter is on her school’s tennis team. I was reading the coach’s expectations for the conduct of the team. One of her rules is that when you step foot onto the court the players are to be focused on tennis and their conversations are to be about tennis, not about boys, gossip, or other frivolous talk. They are to be focused on the purpose for their being there, which in this case is tennis.
When I read these rules I thought of our conversations when we are in God’s house when we are on his court. What does He hear? I have started to listen and to catch myself in what I am saying. I have to say it has been hard. It is so easy to enter into meaningless conversation, to turn my focus and the conversation away from God. To turn away from the reason I am standing in His church.
It has been encouraging to turn conversations to God, I am finding people want to talk and to share what God is doing in their lives. As Paul says in Romans 1:12 “When we get together, I want to encourage you in your faith, but I also want to be encouraged by yours. In this way each of us will be an encouragement to the other.”
My daughter’s coach also stresses that wherever the players go they are representing the team and they are expected to live up to certain standards to be a positive representative of the team. I encourage you when you meet together with others, try to focus your conversations on God and what he is doing. Listen to others and encourage them to share what God is doing in their lives. Paul is even more direct in Colossians 3:17 “And whatever you do or say, let it be as a representative of the Lord Jesus, all the while giving thanks through Him To God the Father.”
Let us be focused on our purpose of being here where God has placed us. No matter where we go we are representing God and His team to the world around us. God is listening what does He hear?
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