2025 is officially over. It was a good year for some and not so good for others. The good or not so good for us could be related to many different things. Economic circumstances, our health, social issues, political matters, to name a few.
Regardless of where we find ourselves at the beginning of 2026, we should challenge ourselves to look forward, not behind. God operates in the present and future. He is a God of the new.
God says in Isaiah 43:18-19, “Do not remember the former things, nor consider the things of old. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland.”
This is consistent with the life mission and ministry of Jesus. When we accept Him as Savior and make Him Lord of our life, things look completely different. Things look NEW!
The Apostle Paul knew this better than anyone after his experience on the Road to Damascus. He wrote this in 2 Corinthians 5:17. “This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!”
There are many stories in the scriptures where things that looked bleak or even hopeless, God did something new. One is the story of Noah, despite ridicule and insurmountable odds, a new earth was brought to life.
Remember Job, he lost everything including his children. But God “blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning”. (Job 42:12)
The Jewish people returned from Babylonian exile and rebuilt the temple. God specializes in new.
King David, who definitely had some new beginnings in his life story, wrote so eloquently in Psalm 40:3, “He has given me a new song to sing, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see what he has done and be amazed. They will put their trust in the Lord.”
So regardless of the challenges and difficulties of 2025, and for many of us they have been significant, remember God wants to do something new in your life in 2026. Happy New Year!
You can write the Pastor at pastorbilly@findtruelife.com.