Wednesday, October 15, 2003
Wednesday, October 15, 2003
Commit your way to the LORD; trust in him, and he will act.
In 1974, the top college basketball player in the country was a young man by the name of Bill
Walton. At six foot eleven, he dominated college basketball. He took his team, UCLA, to their
third consecutive NCAA championship, and in his senior year went on to the NBA. Bill had some
adjustments to make in the NBA, and he didn't make them very well. Then abruptly he left the
game. He said his heart was no longer in his playing.
After some time went by, Bill Walton came back. This time his heart was in his game, and he
played like it. He led the Portland Trailblazers to their first NBA championship. Then he moved
on to the Boston Celtics. Now he's a television basketball announcer.
It makes all the difference in the world if your heart is in what your doing! A lot of us are trying to
live our lives with our hearts in nothing or, we should say, with nothing in our hearts. We have
Christ on our lips, but he's never made that journey further down. That's why we are bored. How
do we move Christ from our lips to our hearts? One, by facing the world's great need for people
on fire. Two, by confronting the futility, the boredom, the feeling of emptiness that half-hearted
living brings.
(Psalm 37.5
NRSV)
Do you ever get bored? Some of you have remote control and cable for your television. I've
noticed that there are a lot of people who sit in front of the television each night with their
remotes and punch 25 to 30 channels an hour. Are you in this group? The discouraging thing is
to hit all those channels and still not find anything worth watching. Aren't you bored? Don't you
sometimes wish there was something more to life? Well, there is something more.
Dear God, may I live fully for your holy purpose. Amen.
