LIVE THE GOD-SIZED LIFE

2026 has arrived! And with it, hopes, expectations, uncertainty, nervousness, and—for some—fear. Many of us have not fully recovered from 2025; parts of it remain unresolved. So how do we move forward with our mixed bags of victories, unresolved, messed-up pasts, and uncertain, even scary futures?

Jesus calls us to God-sized living. He said, "I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly" (John 10:10). So, how do we live this kind of God-sized, abundant Life?

In this first month of the new year, we will explore three different yet related ways for doing so. We will begin with Paul's idea that the best kind of running is looking forward to the finish line and running to win. We surrender our pasts to God—both the good and the bad—and use every muscle of our being (spiritual, emotional, physical) to win!

We then learn from Jeremiah's call and life that God wants us to stretch. And he does that by challenging us to go—and therefore grow—beyond what feels comfortable. Because that is where we experience God the most.

And finally, we will learn from Jesus that we have been created and redeemed to do more than what is normally possible. I call it the (H)impossible. Let us not be satisfied with only what we as human beings can do. God wants us to do much more. How else will people see Jesus in us? How else will the world know that the church is the body of Christ, nothing less?

In Him, with prayers and Blessings,
Pastor Sunil Balasundaram