Monday, May 2, 2011

Where do we go from here?

How many times have you heard that question? Typically, you hear it after a goal is achieved by a group and they are now faced with a dilemma: What now? Sometimes it is overheard after a destination is reached after much effort and another leg of the journey is ahead.
Even now, with the death of bin Laden, we hear the same question. So much time and energy to achieve a goal, only to be faced with the question: "Now what?"
I can imagine the apostles standing around after the ascension of Jesus into heaven. "Where do we go from here?" The man they had built their lives around for close to three years was now gone, not to return in their lifetime. They were outcasts among their own people. They were threatened with imprisonment, death by stoning and being cast out of the assembly. Most of them had no homes of their own.
In spite of all this, they persevered. They kept on going. They took the final admonition of Jesus to heart: "Go ye therefore into all the world, making disciples of all the nations, teaching them to observe all the commandments I have given you."
That is where we go from here.

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