2025 Word of the Year: Light
- Jan 14, 2025
- 2 min read
Updated: 10 hours ago
While a fresh calendar often signals excitement for the year ahead, many are heading into 2025 with the same questions and burdens as last year.
A blank slate can feel daunting, not inspiring, exhausting, not energizing.
I had past new years marked without fanfare, only fearful possibilities. I wondered how “God's goodness and mercy would follow me all the days of my life” when my circumstances were anything but good.
I doubted that God could light the way when the path seemed like a dark unending tunnel. But as I look back, God’s done it - every time.
His peace for my panic.
His grace for my grief.
His hope for my heartache.
His comfort for my laments.
Illuminated
As I prayed over a Word of the Year, the word LIGHT kept coming to mind. Each year, I try to focus on a word - not as a mantra or a magic bullet - but as a guide to look for God in his Word and in everyday life.
For you are my lamp, O LORD, and my God lightens my darkness. 2 Samuel 22:29
The reality of darkness is true for all of us in this fallen world, as we face broken relationships, sin, sickness, and heartache. We stub our toes and fall face-first. But in every cloaked season, I've grown more confident of this:
God won't leave us groping in the dark.
I cling to God's promises that the darkness will not win. Today, we can live our lives by the light of Jesus and place our hope in light-filled eternity.
This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. 1 John 1:5
Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.” John 8:12
And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and its lamp is the Lamb. By its light will the nations walk, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it, and its gates will never be shut by day—and there will be no night there. Revelation 21:23-24
Read & Reflect
Want to be encouraged for the path ahead? Read all of David's song in 2 Samuel 22.
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