what’s next?
Throughout each of our own life journey, there likely has been situations and experiences where we’ve had to make a decision. This decision could be made toward something as simple as “what am I going to eat for dinner tonight”, to something with the magnitude of transferring a job, school, even a relationship.
When God places a call on our lives to something, there are three different responses we can choose to make.
- Outright rejection. Self-explanatory, you deny that there is any such call on your life and can try to run or hide from it.
- Postponement. The last thing we usually want to declare is that there is something that is calling us to change or do something different that no one else is doing.
- Immediate reaction, yes.
In Acts 9, starting in verse 17, it talks about Saul on his journey and mission to Demsacus to outright kill Christians and how the Lord called him to do something.
So Ananias departed and entered the house, and after laying his hands on him said, “Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road by which you were coming, has sent me so that you may regain your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.”
And immediately there fell from his eyes something like scales, and he regained his sight, and he got up and was baptized; and he took food and was strengthened. Now for several days he was with the disciples who were at Damascus, and immediately he began to proclaim Jesus in the synagogues, saying, “He is the Son of God.”
All those hearing him continued to be amazed, and were saying, “Is this not he who in Jerusalem destroyed those who called on this name, and who had come here for the purpose of bringing them bound before the chief priests?”
There must be a response. When we respond, there is an effect on those around us. And when we respond to what God is calling us to, everything changes. We cannot go backwards and we cannot move forward until we respond.
So, I think the question we need to ask ourselves is that, do we see the greater picture of God’s purpose in our own lives? Do we understand the magnitude of this question and the effect it may have not only on our life journey but possibly someone else as well. And by asking this question, we can only help but ask what’s next?