Whatever your past year looked like for you, God is ready to do something new in 2025. God is making a way, even in the wilderness.

Isaiah 43:18-19

We’ve all wandered away from God. We’ve all walked away from God’s path to go our own way.
- We’ve lost our way.
- We’ve lost our purpose.
- We’ve lost our innocence.
- We’ve lost our peace.
- We’ve lost our joy.
- We’ve lost our connection with God and as a result we’ve lost our sense of belonging and we’ve ended up far from home. We’re like the prodigal son who rebelled against his father and ran as far away from home as he could to go his own way.

His father, who was always looking down the road hoping this may be the day his son comes home – He sees the son, while he was still a long way off and the father runs to him and hugs him and holds him close and kisses him and welcomes him home.

We tend to put the face of an imperfect earthly father on the face of God and think that’s what God is like. But you have a perfect Heavenly Father who loves you, who will never leave you, abandon you, and who will never let you down. You have a Heavenly Father who is strong and powerful and will hold you in His arms and never let you go when you run to Him.

If you’ve lost your way this Christmas, you can run to your Father’s house because He’s running to you to welcome you
home.