2025: Old Year Already?

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It is the tenth day of the fifth month of year Two Thousand and Twenty Five (May 10, 2025) – by the Gregorian calendar date count (which is the most used across board). Maybe still fresh a year it is to many a folk. 

But hasn’t the year turned stale and sour like the former years that we have thus far whimpered over regretfully, in reality? Haven’t we sold off the fragrance of this promising year in exchange for four month’s wastefulness and folly?

It is, to me and every reasonable mind, of course, a thing of amazement how people carry elephant baggage of burdensome old lifestyles into new phases of their lives; and yet, in these spectacular periods, ironically think they could fly like light woodpecking birds roving in the woods. It sure doesn’t work that way, does it?

On that note, you and I may need to think backwards and survey our past lives. As we do I’m certain that we will surely see a reason or more to reduce on time-wasting chitchats, cut off from unprofitable associates, filter off toxic old habits, moult from inglorious systems, refocus on our divine purposes, organize our work desks, pick up the dust-gathering Godgiven dreams (we had hoped to pursue), dust off our rusty skills or passions (we had abandoned), and get to real work. 

I mean, in other words, that we would begin to position ourselves for the opportunities of year 2025’s second and third quarters which have begun from this historic month of May. 

Then, you will also agree with me that you and I, as a matter of urgent and paramount duty, must in the remnant of this year and beyond now raise up the bridges of Christlike righteousness, rebuild our sin-broken highways (if we had known the Lord before), re-erect our fallen pillars of divine royalty which make us peculiar before heathen nations, and reconcile our lives totally with all of GOD'S ETERNAL WILL – outside of godless going, dirty doing, purposeless pursuing, loose living, and the eventual ruinous results we have always reaped.

On this 10th day of May, in the 2025th year of our Lord Jesus, I’m inviting you and me to a roundtable of reassessment – a point to really reason, rethink, repent and reoffer incenses that make for realignment with Jehovah God, our Solid Rock – for other hopes would only fail us.

And, very importantly, I believe it is just high time we began to relay our requests in prayers to Zion for God’s mercies in the remaining days – that, although we have become His children, we still do not repeat our old mistakes by sheer naivety, costly witlessness, or even our deceptive former self-confidence – so we do not meet wrenching ends as before.

Finally, I wish to admonish, in addition to the foregoing, that we quickly exit the wagon of the “lips men” and resolve to be real doers or action-takers for the rest of this year. Otherwise, the foxes of the past, that lurk in the niches of time, would invade our fields at unsuspecting moments as usual, and ravage these our vines of vows, dedications, and resolve that we have planted. 

Mind you, these vines of ours also have their tender grapes of potentials, and a little carelessness from us can so cause the entire orchard of green and plenty before us to wilt away: I mean waste into much loss or some story of grief before the year ends (Songs of Solomon 2:15).

I can most definitely assure you, my friend, that those wild creatures won’t spare us one leaf – as they trample to the last stand all treasures, talents, and time at our disposal, rob us of prospects and fortunes, and leave us worse scarred than in the past year – if we leave our guards.

So, beloved, my friend and companion on this journey to a colorful destiny (beyond this side of eternity even), let us now rid ourselves of the old and see 2025 actually bring us its freshness, goodness, and beautifulness which, all the while, may have seemed like a far cry.

Through Jesus Christ, the true Savior of mankind, we are fruitful and more than conquerors. Amen.

“And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine bursts the wineskins, the wine is spilled, and the wineskins are ruined. But new wine must be put into new wineskins.” – Mark 2:22

Cheers! 🥂