# Bye 2025

*Lord Almighty, blessed is the one who trusts in you.*

By [Reborn Jem](https://paragraph.com/@rebornjem) · 2025-12-31

faith, gratitude, reflection, trustingod, spiritualjourney, christianmeditation, walkingwithgod, yearendreflection, godsfaithfulness, đứctin

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### **Psalm 84:10–12 (NIV)**

> **10** Better is one day in your courts  
> than a thousand elsewhere;  
> I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God  
> than dwell in the tents of the wicked.
> 
> **11** For the Lord God is a sun and shield;  
> the Lord bestows favor and honor;  
> no good thing does he withhold  
> from those whose walk is blameless.
> 
> **12** Lord Almighty,  
> blessed is the one who trusts in you.

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### **Reflection**

The last day of 2025 — and what a year it has been.

  

The negative person in me would say I wasted this year wallowing in despair.  
The positive person in me would say I made new connections, new friends, and was exposed to new business ideas and perspectives I never had before.

  

Both can be true.

  

During my 36-minute sit today, the main message that surfaced was simple but confronting: **stop focusing only on the negative**. I’ve spent much of this year replaying what went wrong, when there were also many good things happening quietly in the background.

  

This year has been marked by prayer — asking God for His favor, and wrestling with Him over a crutch I’ve been holding onto for years. Wrestling with God never feels good. I felt a lot like Jonah this year. And we all know what happened when Jonah finally stopped running.

  

I’ve stopped running.

  

As the new year approaches, I pray God will point me to the place He wants me to be and show me clearly where He wants to position me.

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### **Gratitude**

I want to end this year with thanksgiving.

  

I’m thankful for my family, who have supported me throughout this season.  
I’m deeply thankful for my boss — she stood by me through my entire ordeal, and without her steady encouragement, I honestly don’t know how this year would have ended.

  

I’m also grateful for the people God placed in my life this year. Even when I was running from Him, He was still drawing me back — not only to Himself, but through people He sent to pull me out of despair.

  

Even when I gave up on myself, God never gave up on me.

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### **Perspective Shifts**

A friend asked me a question two days ago that has stayed with me:

  

_“If money wasn’t an issue — if you had a $3 million credit line — what would you do with it to generate more money?”_

  

That question reopened a part of my mind I had quietly shut down. I used to think this way, but somewhere along the line, I stopped allowing myself to.

  

The real game isn’t reaching a certain number.  
It’s building **systems** that generate revenue.

  

There is money everywhere.  
Money wants to grow.  
The world doesn’t lack money — it lacks ideas.

  

Another friend told me recently that I have a lot of lived experiences worth sharing and encouraged me to start posting again. Lately, different people have been suggesting things to me — and I’ve noticed how often I’ve been saying _no_ to myself.

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### **Looking Ahead**

As 2026 approaches, my prayer is simple:

  

That I would find myself again.  
That I would trust God for everything I need.  
That I would rebound stronger than ever.

  

To God be all the glory.

  

I’ll be starting 2026 by dedicating a fast to God — to start the year right and walk closely with Him.

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*Originally published on [Reborn Jem](https://paragraph.com/@rebornjem/bye-2025)*