8-24-2023
“Holy” Conversations
The famous baseball manager, Connie Mack, said this:
“No matter what I talk about, I always get back to baseball.”
He said this in an interview with the Sporting News magazine in March 1951. He was 88 at the time, retired from the game, and yet he still couldn’t stop talking about baseball.
We’ve all known those whose conversations inevitably arrive at the same destination. Some to an off-color joke, others to a bit of gossip, or a complaint about this or that, or a vein-popping political rant. No matter where the conversation begins, it always comes to the same ugly place.
And then there are others whose conversations always lead to an uplifting thought … a prayer request … a praise report … a word of encouragement. It has a lot to do with what’s on your mind all the time, but I would argue that it has more to do with what’s in your heart than anything.
That’s why Jesus said, “What you say flows from what is in your heart.” (Luke 6:45)
So what if, just, what if we were to “edit” Connie Mack’s quote to read like this:
“No matter what I talk about, I always get back to Jesus.”
I’m not talking about some obnoxious rant, but about how Jesus changed your life, how Jesus is helping you through a challenging time, about how Jesus has made life better and made you better at life. The options are endless. Perhaps this is what Peter meant when he wrote this:
But as he who has called you is holy, so you be holy in all manner of conversation…..
Look for opportunities to have those “holy” conversations wherever you go, and watch God at work.