Earlier today on Bellshill Salvation Army Band’s Facebook page I shared the devotions I shared at our band practice last Wednesday evening. I’d like to share those devotions with you tonight.
The disciples had a strange experience after Easter. They had witnessed the greatest miracle in history…and then they had to figure out how to live on Monday.
Their Monday looked a lot like our Monday’s do:
- routines
- responsibilities
- relationships
- worries
- decisions
But something had changed, because they were now people of the risen Christ. That meant their future had been changed forever.
Jesus didn’t give them a plan, or instructions – He gave them a mission:
𝐴𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐹𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑚𝑒, 𝐼 𝑎𝑚 𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑦𝑜𝑢.
Not 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑠.
Not 𝑖𝑛 𝑐𝑖𝑟𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑠.
But 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝.
Forward into conversations they didn’t expect.
Forward into places they’d never imagined going.
Forward into a life shaped not by fear, but by resurrection.
And that’s the invitation for us today.
𝐍𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐄𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐝, 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐰𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞?
Will we slip back into old patterns? Or will we step forward into the life Christ is calling us to? Because Easter gives us permission to stop replaying old failures and start walking into new possibilities.
It reminds us:
- We don’t live from fear — we live from resurrection.
- We don’t live from emptiness — we live from grace.
- We don’t live from habit — we live from calling.
- We don’t live from “what was” — we live from “what’s next.”
And that brings us to where we are now, standing in the days after Easter, in our own “Monday after the miracle,” faced with the same invitation Jesus gave His disciples:
𝐴𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐹𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑚𝑒, 𝐼 𝑎𝑚 𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑦𝑜𝑢.
Easter doesn’t just comfort us.
It commissions us.
It asks something of us.
It calls something out of us.
It invites us to step into a future shaped by resurrection, not routine.
And that’s why the song we share with these devotions is the perfect response, because at some point, every follower of Jesus has to move from “What now, Lord?” to “Here am I, send me.”
Not because we feel ready.
Not because we feel strong.
But because the risen Christ goes with us.
So as we listen to this song, let it become our prayer for the coming days – a prayer of willingness, openness, and forward movement.
𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘮 𝘐, 𝘓𝘰𝘳𝘥.
𝘚𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘦.
The Distinct Dot 