That is probably a question that is on everyone’s mind?  What’s next?  What is going to be the next challenge to deal with concerning the corona virus?  How will it continue to impact how I live?  These kinds of questions may be the ones that primarily swirl in our minds, and occasionally we ask to another person wanting to know the answer to the same questions.  It is in times like this, that we need solid facts, friendly affirmation, and wisdom to determine the manner we are to live each day.  But finding that today is difficult, so we continue to wonder. 

It is the day after the resurrection day for the disciples, they have seen Jesus, and have been instructed to head for Galilee.  I believe that they also asked the question, “What’s next?” as well.  Before the crucifixion, their life with Jesus had settled into a routine of going from town to town healing people, casting out demons, teaching people about the Kingdom of God.  They went to feast and Holy days with Jesus, they encountered intense discussions with the Jewish leaders.  They traveled together, ate together, learned together, and shared life together.  But now their relationship with Jesus was going to change, not completely, but it would be different in what would be next?  I am sure that on their minds, was the activity of the Jewish leaders to capture and imprison them or even have them put to death.  Life on earth would be different, how would they live?

Of course, from the book of John, chapter 21 we see the beautiful unfolding of renewal in the relationship between Jesus and His disciples over a prepared breakfast meal. Jesus instructed the disciples on what they were to do; that is be His witnesses and make disciples, but they were not to do it on their own.  They were to wait for the gift of the Holy Spirit, that would bring power, wisdom, and might to carry out the purpose of God to share the Gospel of Jesus from Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and to the very ends of the earth.  Without the Spirit, they would not be able to live the new life and purpose Jesus had prepared them for.  It would be challenging, it would be daunting, it would be uncertain, it would be a genuine life of faith and dependence on God to provide, wisdom, sustenance, health, and power to do His work.

What’s next?  I don’t know, but what I do know is that we must keep a genuine faith and trust in God and pray for wisdom and direction in all that we do.  We must allow God’s Holy Spirit to encourage and lead our thinking and resolve to honor Jesus each day.  We want to ask, “What’s next?”  God whispers, “just live today in my grace and I’ll take care of tomorrow.”

“Trust in the Lord with all your heart,

and do not rely on your own understanding;

in all your ways know Him,

and He will make your paths straight.”

Proverbs 3:5-6