What’s next for you? Most people are thinking of what is happening now, but many people still think about what is next. Most of the time our minds wonder what it would be like if…. this happens. Fill in the blank to the thing your mind is focused on. Although we are in Summertime and our thoughts are on the vacations we will go on or the camps we will send kids to. All those things are great, but what if we could change our focus slightly? What if instead of thinking what is next for us, we shift to thinking about who is next?

This is exactly the shift in thinking King David made. In 1 Chronicles 22, David shifted from thinking of the things God would do in him, but them started shifting to what could God do through him for Solomon. David had it in his heart to build a proper temple for the Lord, found in 1 Chronicles 17:1-2. However, God redirected the seemingly good desire David had to build a temple as God said, “Thus says the LORD: It is not you who will build a house to dwell in” (1 Chronicles 17:4). The question was not “What is next for David,” but “who is next for David?” David said, “Solomon my son is young and inexperienced, and the house that is to be built for the LORD must be exceedingly magnificent, of fame and glory throughout all lands. I will therefore make preparations for it” (1 Chronicles 22:5). David made it his mission to make his son successful in the very thing David could not do.

Reframe the question in you mind from “What is next” to “Who is next?”