We’re all thinking about 2026. The year is here whether we’re ready or not, and it’s easy to approach it with dread—economic anxiety, cultural fatigue, institutional exhaustion, spiritual burnout. Adventists are especially good at this. We’ve had a long time to practice worrying with theological justification.
But what if we chose to overthink something else?
What if, instead of rehearsing everything that could go wrong in 2026, we doubled down on overthinking all the ways God could move—in our lives, in our church families, and in our communities?
Yes, it’s dark outside. The weather feels heavy. The mood is low. But this is also exactly the moment to resist becoming professionally gloomy. It’s tempting to confuse seriousness with faithfulness and pessimism with spiritual depth. Yet the gospel never calls us to live in permanent low-grade despair.
Jesus didn’t describe the Christian life as something to endure until escape. He called it abundant.
Abundant life means leaning into the best parts of what we’ve been given. It means embracing the health message not as a badge of moral superiority, but as a joyful, embodied witness. It means being visibly, convincingly human—curious, educated, generous, present. It means actually enjoying community instead of merely tolerating it until heaven.
It also means expecting God to act now, not only at the Second Coming. Adventism was never meant to produce people so obsessed with the hereafter that they’re disengaged from daily reality. Being “too heavenly minded to be any earthly good” isn’t holiness—it’s avoidance.
So let’s overthink 2026 properly.
Let’s overthink what it would look like to be hopeful on purpose. To be healthy on purpose. To be joyfully, stubbornly present. To expect God to show up in real time, through real people, in real places.
If we’re going to overthink anyway, let’s overthink that.
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