May 5, 2026 – Daily Devotional
The tomb is empty. The stone is rolled away. The disciples have seen the risen Christ — and now what? Easter Sunday carries the electric joy of resurrection, but Monday morning always comes. The question that followed the first witnesses out of that garden follows us still: Where do we go from here?
When Wendy first answered the call to ministry, serving as a local pastor in Burns Flat, life in that season had a familiar shape. I still drove to the same office where I’d worked since before we were married. We still laughed around tables with our friends from Elk City. Our daughter Hannah still ran the hallways of her elementary school with the kids she’d grown up loving, and Brooks had just been born. The call was real — but the life around it felt unchanged, and that felt like grace.
Then came the time for Wendy to begin seminary at Southern Methodist University in Dallas and a necessary move to southeastern Oklahoma.
Everything we had quietly counted on — our routines, our community, our child’s world — would have to be surrendered for something we couldn’t fully see yet. We weren’t just moving. We were being asked to plot a new course, to leave behind the comfortable geography of a life we had built, and trust that resurrection power could cover the distance between here and wherever God was leading.
The disciples knew this feeling. After the resurrection, Jesus didn’t hand them a five-year plan. He handed them a promise: I am with you always. And then he sent them out anyway.
That is the pattern of Easter. The empty tomb is not the ending — it is the beginning of a disorienting, beautiful, demanding new life. Resurrection doesn’t just raise the dead. It reroutes the living.
Maybe you are standing in your own in-between place right now. The old season has ended. The new one hasn’t taken shape. You know something has changed — in your family, your vocation, your church, your heart — but you haven’t yet found the language for what comes next.
Here is what Wendy’s journey taught us: You don’t need the whole map. You need the next step and the God who already knows the road.
The disciples didn’t stay in the upper room forever. The women didn’t linger at the garden tomb. They went — uncertain, changed, empowered by a Spirit they were still learning to trust.
So where do we go from here?
We go forward. We go together. We go in the company of a risen Savior who has never once asked us to navigate the unknown alone.
The stone is still rolled away. That means the road is still open.
Go.
-Chris Lambert, Director, Meals on Wheels, Oklahoma City
