Three Truths and Scriptures For Stepping into a New Year

As we go into a new year I have to remember not just the year we left behind, but the reminders from God of who He is and will always be.  I fall somewhere in the middle as someone who loves to make plans, and someone who doesn’t love all the resolutions. As I mature I’ve learned to hold my plans with open hands, knowing God’s plans will always be the ones that come to pass.  This doesn’t cause me to doubt or give up hope but rather helps me cling to contentment in this God of hope I place my trust in.  I look ahead knowing whatever comes, the truths I rest my hope on remain the same.

The Bible is scattered with truth in Bible verses about who God is and while yes, He can and may be doing a new thing, I also know the word of God is timeless, and so is He.  This blog post is simply my reflections, not of the past year, but of God’s goodness as we look ahead.  It’s also a moment I’ve missed so much in 2025, writing for you.  So while we have a moment, I get to write.  I get to process and share my heart. I’ll be sharing three verses that I believe God blessed me with to remember his unfailing love, God’s plan, and hope for my sometimes anxious heart.

Verse One:

“Jesus gives us living water.  May we never be thirsty again.”  John 4:13-14  

Often as believers we forget not just who we are in Christ but what we’ve been given.  The God of the universe invites us to relationship with him, giving us His living water to get through each day.  Some days we may find a great thirst for it, others we may find ourselves forgetting we needed that drink altogether.   Even worse, we may be missing God’s care in our lives, finding ourselves parched and dehydrated when we need not be.  

We’re prone to wonder what we must do to be close to God.  What checklist do I need to follow to be closer to Him? Is it an hour in the word each morning? Did I do something to mess things up?  Far from it.  God’s word reminds us that when we accept Jesus as our Lord and savior he gives us living water.  All we need is in Him.  May we remember that this year, drinking from His well.   May his word be with us like a stanley cup on a millenial mother’s hip. Always with us, guiding us, sustaining us.

Verse Two:

“Come let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of Jacob.  He will teach us his ways so we will walk in his paths.” Micah 4:2

I love that this verse shows us Christ as our teacher.  As we are offered a fresh start, God’s presence is with us and as we walk with Him, He will guide us.  Thanks to the power of the Holy Spirit we don’t need to read these verses and think of them as something that’s not applicable to us today. While I wasn’t a great student of the Old Testament in years past, I’ve found the last five years God has given me so much spiritual growth in seeing his righteous right hand in there.  

Can we go up to the mountain of the Lord? Not literally, no.  But figuratively yes, we can go meet with the Lord no matter what our daily lives look like.  We can find biblical peace knowing the son of God will teach us his ways so we will walk in his paths.  The peace of christ rules in our hearts when we are walking in his paths.  This mighty God of Jacob is with us too.  So, will you take time to meet with him each day?  He will teach you and guide you along the right path this year.

Verse Three:

“Now if we hope for what we do not see we eagerly wait for it with patience.”  Romans 8:25

This may not seem like the most motivational verse if you’re hoping to know everything coming this next year.  How do we hope for what we did not see?  This verse brings me so much peace that the Lord of peace will be with me this next year in my daily life and in every crucial moment.  I can look forward to life with Him for eternity, knowing this world is not my home.  While I’m here He is my wonderful counselor and I can eagerly wait for the day all things will make sense.  All the tough times, the darkest valley we walked, the past mistakes, they are all known to Him.  

I can hope in God’s promises because He is faithful and true.  God’s faithfulness will meet me each day and it’s my daily prayer that I would go into 2026 knowing that He will sustain me with his living water, He will walk with me and teach me his ways, and He is worth putting my hope and trust in.  I don’t need to plan everything out.  I need to look to God knowing His grace will be with me each day.

If I look back at the end of 2026 knowing that I’ve met with him, walked with Him, put my hope in Him, I’ll have had a good year.  Now that’s some confidence I’m willing to start the new year with, a new season that’s dependent on and the Lord, looking to Him as I walk each day.  That’s all each of us can do friends.  So with that, here’s to 2026.