I’m writing this on a cold winter’s night, with one pup laying next to me and the other curled up in his bed. A fire keeps us warm, and worship music tends to my ears. With only a few hours left in 2025, I find myself reflecting on the season I’ve been in.
Life is full of seasons, rotating, continual, and often unexpected. God places these seasons in our lives according to His timing and His revealing. We rarely know when one will end and another will begin.
When we enter them, we often find ourselves trying to escape. But what if we’ve been looking at it all wrong? What if it’s not about getting out, but about seeking Him….always? And in that seeking, we find Him in ways we never have before.
He never runs out of sharing who He is with us. It can be easy to look at the season we are facing and just directly look inward. We start thinking, Maybe if I do this better, then this will change. But truth is…God is inviting us to do the opposite.
He wants you to turn to Him, rely on Him, and look to Him as the answer in the midst of our struggle.
The beauty of struggle is the blessing of knowing love. Not just any love, but His love. A love that never grows dull or ends in heartbreak. A love that is never a question, but the answer.
If we would simply yearn for His love, our struggles would no longer feel unbearable but met with His strength in the midst of our weakness. His love sustains us within the struggle and transforms how we carry it.
“Consider it pure joy… whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.” – James 1:2–3
I have been in a wilderness season. It is a place of shaping and refining, a making place. It is where the closeness with God is the fruit of the season.
Every year has its tears, but this year’s tears were different. They were the kind that reshaped me, the kind that refused to be wasted. They uncovered truth, and forced me to accept these truths.
They showed me that the love I have been yearning for and chasing my whole life was only found in my Creator, my God. He has blessed me with encounters of His presence that have changed me forever. It is more than anything I could have accomplished this year or in any year.
I found His love, and it is everything I will ever need.
A love that, when you gaze upon His beauty, looks back at you with full acceptance, loving every ounce of your imperfection.
You are perfect in His eyes. Every part of you, He longs to hold in His hands, caring for you…forever. Now my soul burns for Him, Him alone.
Every day I yearn for Him. His presence is a nearness I never want to leave or be without. It is the reason for life.
While we wake, go through our ordinary routines, and search for meaning, we are often left never fully fulfilled. We have all probably asked ourselves the question: What is my purpose? Do they love me? And even when one goal is accomplished, or a craving for someones love is met, it can never fill that divine void.
The void meant only for your Creator. People will fail to love you perfectly, but He never will. We will never be fully satisfied in this life until we are home with Him. Jesus and I walked side by side in this wilderness season, and I know we will walk even closer in the seasons He has ahead for me.
As we enter 2026, I encourage you to do everything with Him, thinking of Him, seeking Him, and asking for His will in every decision. He will lead you on a path that lasts, a path that truly satisfies, because He wants to give you the deepest desires of your heart.
This is a love discovered in my 2025 wilderness season. If you are in a season of struggle or uncertainty, know that He is there.
Seek Him, lean into His love, and let Him meet you exactly where you are. His presence transforms the pain, sustains you in weakness, and reveals that nothing, not even the wilderness, can separate you from His heart.
