Well, 2025 has ended and 2026 has begun. Christmas is behind us. New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day are already fading in the rearview. And as always, the news cycle is busy doing its annual review. It replays what happened. It rehearses what was. It offers no vision for what’s ahead.

But the whole spirit of this season is backward‑looking.
Remembering what was instead of preparing for what is coming.

Yet Scripture calls us to a different posture:

• “Do not remember the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing.” (Isaiah 43:18–19)
• “His mercies are new every morning.” (Lamentations 3:22–23)
• “One thing I do: forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead.” (Philippians 3:13)

If we keep doing the same things in the same way every year, we will never experience the new opportunities. God is preparing these new opportunities for us.
Stop looking back.
Stop rehearsing the past.
Stop letting tradition dictate your expectation.

Every day you open the door, the sky is different.
The clouds are different.
The air is different.
Creation itself refuses to repeat yesterday — yet we cling to routines, patterns, and cycles that never change.

We ride the same merry‑go‑round:
Christmas, Easter, Christmas, Easter…
as if the kingdom of God is a calendar instead of a calling.

But Jesus is not returning as a baby in a manger.
He is coming as a King, riding on a white horse, with the armies of heaven behind Him:

• “Behold, a white horse. He who sat on him was called Faithful and True… and the armies in heaven followed Him.” (Revelation 19:11–14)

That is the new we should be preparing for.

So the question stands:
Are we preparing for what is coming, or just recycling what has been?