What Can God Do With Our Dedicated Lives in 2026? - Today Can Be Different

Are you eagerly looking forward to 2026? Or has 2025 been so bad that you dread another day, much less another year?

Could it be that experiencing more of God’s wonders in the future begins with dedicating or consecrating our lives (setting ourselves apart) today?

Throughout Scripture, God often instructed His people to consecrate themselves right before He moved powerfully in their midst. The day before the Israelites crossed into the Promised Land, Joshua told the people:

Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you. (Joshua 3:5 ESV).

Do you long for God to do wonders in your life? In your marriage? In your church? I do.

So … where do we begin?

We begin by asking God to help us desire Him more than anyone or anything else. We ask Him to deepen our longing for Him until we willingly separate ourselves from sinful activities, unhealthy desires, destructive thoughts and compromising relationships.

Setting our lives apart for God requires the Holy Spirit’s help – and the courage to ask ourselves some hard questions:

• What relationships (in person or online) need to change – or end?
• Are we spending too much time on social media or online games?
• Do we deny our addiction to gambling or pornography? 

• What occupies our thoughts?
• Whom do we need to forgive?
• What other habits are quietly weakening our relationship with God and those we love?

• And finally, are we willing to do whatever it takes to change?

The enemy will try to weaken our resolve. We’re certainly doomed to fail if we rely on sheer willpower (pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps). But if we put our trust in Christ to change us, we’ll persevere.

Imagine what God could do with our consecrated hearts and lives – and how our lives would testify to the wonders God would work within us.

The regrets we could avoid in our relationships alone in 2026 would make our resolve to live this way worth sticking to. As we experience less guilt, we’ll be amazed by how much lighter our hearts and mood become.

Consider, too, the impact we’ll have in our churches, which will spill over into our communities. Envision all the ways God might use us when we’re wholeheartedly committed to Him.

Can you see the benefits of consecrating your heart and life (your choices and dreams) to God?

Let’s aim to spend every day in 2026 setting ourselves apart for Him and learning to make wiser, godlier choices. Then, instead of dreading another new year, we’ll step into 2027 with hope-filled expectation.

What about you?

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