It's Your Turn

Imagine you’re sitting around a table with a group of friends playing your favorite board game. The dice have been rolled, the cards laid out, and the strategy for victory is forming in your mind. You finish your turn, lean back, and wait. But the person who’s up next is nowhere in sight. Maybe they wandered off to grab a snack, answer a text, or take a bathroom break. Eventually, someone calls out those familiar words: “Hey! It’s your turn!”

That simple phrase carries a lot of meaning. It means stop delaying. It means coming back to the game. It means that what happens next depends on you. In many ways, today’s Scripture passages are saying the same thing: it’s your turn. Christ has already done everything necessary to bring salvation and hope to a dying world. He has lived the life we couldn’t live, died the death we deserved, risen in power, and shown us exactly what love looks like in human form. Yesterday we reflected on His example, not just to admire it from a distance, but to follow it and imitate it. Jesus didn’t demonstrate humility, compassion, forgiveness, and sacrificial love so that we could sit back and applaud. He showed us so we would pattern our lives after His. He called us to action.

It’s good and right to love Jesus, to appreciate His sacrifice, and to feel gratitude for His mercy. But Jesus’s teachings and His actions were never meant to stay on the pages of Scripture, in the quiet corners of our hearts or even within the walls of the church building. He called disciples, not spectators. He trained followers, not admirers. When Jesus kneeled to wash feet, when He touched the untouchable, when He forgave the unforgivable, when He loved the unlovable…He was showing us what it means to live as children of God in a broken world. And now He looks at us and says, “Go and do likewise.”

So what are you waiting for? Discipleship begins when we recognize that it’s our turn. Maybe this is exactly what you need to remind yourself tomorrow morning when you first wake up. Before your feet hit the floor, say to yourself, “It’s my turn.” It’s my turn to love like Jesus. It’s my turn to forgive. It’s my turn to serve. It’s my turn to step out in faith and share the gospel. It’s my turn to be generous, compassionate, courageous, and boldly obedient. It’s my turn to carry the love of Christ into the places He has sent me. Sometimes we need a practical reminder. Maybe you set it as a daily alarm on your phone; as soon as you wake up or on your lunch break, something labelled “It’s your turn.” This is not meant to pressure you, but to awaken you. To call you back to the mission when your heart drifts, or your focus fades…to come back to the main thing.

We need to be continually reminded because we are a continually forgetful people. We all drift. We drift toward comfort. We drift toward self-interest. We drift toward routine, apathy, or distraction. We drift back into living for our desires instead of Christ’s desires. That’s why reminders matter. That’s also why Scripture speaks so often of remembering. That’s why Jesus says, “Follow Me,” not as a one-time decision, but as a daily decision. Discipleship is not a moment; it’s a lifestyle. It’s a daily choosing and step. And it begins with this simple realization: Jesus has done His part. Now it’s my turn.