What Next?

What Next?

What next? A question we often ask after every step taken, after we're done with a stage/phase of things, or after an event we spent time planning for, comes to an end. More often it's a burden in our hearts, our mouths are too heavy to express; an emptiness and void in our soul we often feel, and seek to fill up with something.

It comes in endless cycles and timeless seasons. We ask what next? And not long after what next has come, we still find ourselves asking what next?
So often we ask what next, and even after we are told what next, we still find ourselves asking what next?

We're like weary fishers by a sea shore in a dark night, waiting for the waves to bring choice fishes on our shores.
In frayed nerves as frail mortals, all we can utter is what next?
Our expectation grows wave after wave, and the inquiry in our hearts to see our dreams fulfilled, never ends.
With each phase of accomplishment and fulfilment, comes the burdensome "what next?

We ask what next because we're not in control and in charge of the tides, to determine what next it brings to us.
We're too finite, and confined in the space of time, to remote control the infinite future and dial the channels of our choice.

So often the answer eludes us, and we end up settling for anything we can find to fill in the blank spaces of what next?
Though filled with some activity, they remain blank spaces in our ever searching/seeking hearts.
Truly in the words of the preacher in the Ecclesiastes of scripture, "God has set eternity in the hearts of men" (Ecclesiastes 3:11); thus in time none of us can grow beyond asking what next?
None can ever be so accomplished and fulfilled, to never ask again "what next?
Only eternity and the eternal plan/program of God for the eternal ages to come, can answer to that.
Only eternity truly holds what next, the best we can find in time are phases of life leading to it.
May God open our eyes to truly see what next, and to rest in hope of the glory of the things which God has prepared for them that love him.

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