“2025: A Cupcake Win”
Yeah, we’re finishing strong this year. We might be exhausted, our pockets may be empty, and we might be wearing the same clothes that we’ve been wearing for a week, but after today, it will all start over. Thank God.
We don’t need to rehash 2024. I’m tired of that, too. I really need a new start. Yeah, I recognize that I still need to solve issues in 2025 that are the fault of 2024, but at least I don’t have to keep thinking about the why, when, and all of that stuff.
God gives us the New Year. Our calendars begin with January 1 precisely because January 1 is day eight of Christmas. In theological terms (the Bible), eight is a symbol of a new birth, beginning, or start. When our modern calendar was created, January 1 was specifically identified following the date of Christmas. Yes, God is everywhere!
That’s good. Though I’m only going to think about 2024 for just a few more hours, I occasionally need to be reminded that it was God who pushed, pulled, and yanked me through that sorry excuse for a year. I suppose that should give me a little hope for 2025, if for no other reason than I know that God is going to be there. In fact, God is already there. Thank God.
Take a moment to think about that concept. Whatever issues are ahead of us in 2025, God is already there waiting for us. God is waiting at the next checkpoint and the one after that, just as God is waiting at the finish line. If we have another mess ahead, God is there with the ideas, supplies, and strength we need. If we have a big party ahead in 2025, God is there as well, hanging the pinata and decorating the room. If I learned anything from this past year, it is that the impossible is indeed possible.
I hope and pray that you have a good, strong beginning to the New Year. Whatever is in front of us, we will tackle it together with all the ferocity of middle linebacker…and we will win. 2024 may have taken us to the brink of elimination, but we made it. We won.
Come on, 2025! You ain’t got nothin’ on us. You’re gonna be a Cupcake Win because God is already there!
I hope to see you soon, in person or online, at the Chapel!
God Bless, Brock.
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