{"id":4436,"date":"2026-04-06T03:10:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T03:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/?p=4436"},"modified":"2026-04-05T23:12:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T23:12:31","slug":"what-happens-next-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/what-happens-next-3\/","title":{"rendered":"What happens next?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Monday, April 6<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>What happens next?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>He isn\u2019t here! He is risen from the dead! Remember what he told you back in Galilee. <\/em><strong>Luke 24:6, NLT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Three days later everything changes. The tomb is empty. Death is defeated. Hope is alive. But then comes the quiet, often overlooked question: What happens now? What do we do now that our Savior is risen?<\/p>\n<p>For the disciples, Jesus\u2019s resurrection wasn\u2019t the end of the story, it was the beginning of a confusing, awe-filled, world-shifting new reality. Resurrection requires response. \u201cWhat happens now?\u201d is the same question we face today. It means:<\/p>\n<p>We don\u2019t stay in the grave clothes of our past.<\/p>\n<p>We don\u2019t live as if hope is still buried.<\/p>\n<p>We don\u2019t hold back from the life we\u2019ve been given.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, we are invited to:<\/p>\n<p>Believe again, even when it\u2019s hard.<\/p>\n<p>Follow forward, even without all the answers.<\/p>\n<p>Share boldly, because the story isn\u2019t finished.<\/p>\n<p>The resurrection is not the conclusion. It\u2019s the commission as written in Matthew 28:18\u201320, where Jesus says \u201c<em>Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them\u2026 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Jesus didn\u2019t rise so we could simply look back, He rose so we could move forward.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prayer for today<\/strong>: <em>Lord, thank You for the victory of His Resurrection. Thank You that the story didn\u2019t end at the cross. As I step into this new day, help me not just to celebrate the resurrection, but to live in its power. Show me what \u201cnow\u201d looks like in my life. Give me courage to follow You fully. Amen.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, April 6 What happens next? He isn\u2019t here! He is risen from the dead! Remember what he told you back in Galilee. Luke 24:6, NLT Three days later everything changes. The tomb is empty. Death is defeated. Hope is alive. But then comes the quiet, often overlooked question: What happens now? What do we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4437,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4436\/revisions\/4437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}