Now
What Do I Do?
Its not written that they said it…but they were human, so they should have said it. I would have. They had witnessed the darkness of the crucifixion. They had run away. Then…the resurrection…they saw and believed. He stayed with them for forty days…appeared to them over and over again…talked to them.
And then He left.
There was no military take over. There
was no army of angels left to protect. There
was plague or death angel to punish the bad guys.
Pure and simple, Jesus left them. He
ascended away to heaven. And then
surely came the question in each of their minds: “Now what do I do?”
I
know that feeling. Sometimes it
occurs right after a football game that we lost.
I am walking into a locker room of disappointment and hurt…a group of
kids who dared to believe…who fought the good fight.
And I ask myself, “Now what do I do?”
We
know that feeling…that feeling of aloneness when the darkness comes…when we
feel separated from the world. We
know that feeling when things don’t go as they should…when others are
counting on us and we feel no strength. We
know that feeling when its just us…alone and the mountain seems so high we
dare not look up. “Now what do I
do?”
Jesus left them with some words. Of
course, He had said words before and they did not or could not understand.
He told them to go into the world and make disciples.
I wonder if that soothed their loneliness and helplessness.
But then, there were those last words…that last sentence.
“And lo, I am with you always, even to the ends of the earth.”
Somewhere in that last sentence I think we find the answer to our question.
You see, its not “now what do I do?”
Its “now what do WE do?”
Our aloneness is defeated, not by the world, but by Him.
Christ is with us. We are
not alone. Thanks be to God!
Billy