Blog What matters most...?

By Rob Conley

As the air is turning cooler (finally!) and we are adjusting our schedules to get my son to and from basketball practices and games, I am reminded of my younger years growing up in Indiana where we lived for winter because winter meant basketball. Hoosier hysteria really does border on the hysterical from time to time. Does chipping ice off your driveway so you can play basketball by yourself get close to hysterical? Or is that just plain insanity? I’ll let you answer that one.

I remember a very special day in the winter of 1989-1990 during my senior year in college playing against a small college in Iowa. We were down by three points with about 20 seconds to go. I in-bounded the ball to our point guard and we shared a non-verbal communication, knowing what we wanted to do. That game plan was intuitively relayed to our power forward. I slid down the left wing while our power forward set a screen on my man. I drifted to the corner and received the pass for an open three-point jump shot. I rose from the floor and released the shot, and was fouled just after the release…

You know, it has been almost 19 years since that moment yet I can remember it very clearly. You know what else rings very clear in my mind? It is that still, small voice that called me to surrender to Christ and accept him as Lord and Savior.

How many people in the world have never had a chance to hear that still, small voice? Too many! This is what matters most.

Games will come and go and “glory days” will quickly fade, but the call, the command, and the commission of Christ is what matters now and for eternity’s sake.

What is your role?