I know Christmas is over, but most of my lights, my manger scene, and other Christ-focused decorations are still in place and will be through January. On dark winter days I like seeing my tiny twinkle lights brightening the cold outside. My décor reminds me that adoring God doesn’t end with the start of a new year!
But my lights will remind my heart to worship the newborn King!
And keeping Christmas décor in place, a practice of many believers in other cultures, continues the celebration of Christmas until Epiphany, January 6, the church calendar’s day for marking the arrival of the wise men.
But, like everyone else, I’m turning my focus to the New Year, anticipating all that God has ahead. And I’m staying mindful that looking ahead must be accompanied with looking above.
The words from the hymn, “O come let us adore Him” are not just for December. Adoring God is a yearly, monthly, daily, hourly attitude for us to remember, practice and lead our families in. As we step into the new of 2025, it’s equally important to sink our roots into what is old, unchanging, and eternal. I’m inviting you to join in this continual, regular worship of the One who came to save us.
Make 2025 the year that you resolve to daily consider the eternal faithfulness of the God who came near to you, knowing you will fail but He won’t. Make it a year when you make God a focus of your home. Deuteronomy 6:5-9 instructs:
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
The study of His Word, the praising of His name, and the meditation on who He is does not end when the last pine needles are swept clean. So …
May this new year find you adoring God in every regular moment.
