Matthew 26:55-56 NLT

Then Jesus said to the crowd, 

"Am I some dangerous revolutionary, that you come with swords and clubs to arrest me? 

Why didn't you arrest me in the Temple? 

I was there teaching every day.

But this is all happening to fulfill the words of the prophets as recorded in the Scriptures."

At that point, all the disciples deserted him and fled. 

Matthew 26:55-56 NLT

Jesus is very clear, he's not a danger to anyone. There'll be no overthrowing of the Romans, no "new year, new you", no new resolutions, but a continuing to step into his calling, his vocation, his reason for being.

And his team, his friends, his closest people, left.

Fear, realisation that Jesus had really meant all he had said, the power of the culture, of the Empire might have seemed too big, too frightening.

But Jesus continued in his path. 

As 2025 starts maybe it holds something new.

Perhaps it holds a continuation of your calling, vocation, commitment.

Commitment to a person, relationship, child/children, vocation, a way of being in the world, to connection, thriving, to healing, to mending, to becoming, to becoming who our God imagined you to be before anything was (see Eph 1:4).

Jesus simply kept stepping forward even though the Empire, his community, his friends, couldn't walk with him.

Take the next step...

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