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My Soul Must Return
(Ge2:7; Lk23:46)

God is the Father of spirits (He12:9).
All things come from Him and return to Him (Rm11:36) and
All spirits come from Him and return to Him (Ps116:7).
 
Faith is knowing this and longing to return, and
The life of this faith is doing all things preparing to return at any time,
As the Israelites did on the night of Passover (Ex12:11).
 
Though in the new year people make wishes and resolutions, usually for health,
The body ages one more year since no one can avoid aging.
And after aging everyone dies, after which
They return to dust, which makes it all meaningless (Ecc2:16).
 
Man includes the outwardly man, the flesh that returns to dust (Ge3:19; 2Co4:16), and
The inwardly man, the living being that returns to the bosom of God (Ge2:7).
As such, he who discovers himself through the Bible as “the true me = soul”           
                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Then orients himself in the new year to return to the Father’s bosom.
 
Deceived by the serpent,
Adam the ancestor of all mankind sinned, that is, missed the mark.
Consequently, he was cast out of the Garden and the way back was blocked (Ge3:24), and
All men became wanderers (Ge4:12),
But in fact, all spirits are locked up in the universe
Until the great day of judgment (Ge1:2; 2Pe2:4, 3:7; Jude1:6).
 
God prepared for men of faith to return to Him, such as
Abraham who called himself a pilgrim seeking his homeland,
A better country, a heavenly one (He11:8-16).
Israel was a nomadic people without a land and dwelled in tents (Eze44:28)
Because they had a place to return to.
 
In the first month of the year, during the Passover (Ex12:2, 27),
They remembered being delivered from their slavery in Egypt and entering Canaan.
The prophets cried out for Israel to return from having gone astray (Zec1:3; Mal3:7-9).
As such, wherever they lived, they laid their heads in the direction of Jerusalem for
The Temple of Jerusalem where the name of Jehovah was placed was
Their orientation, the target for their return.
 
Yeshua said, “Destroy this temple and I will raise it again in three days,” because
Through the death and the resurrection of the temple of His body (Jn2:19-21),
He will show the direction to turn to, the way to return to the Father (Mt4:17; Jn14:1-6) for
He is the Word who was with the Father in the beginning and came from Him (Jn1:1, 14, 18).
 
As He died, He said, “It is finished” (Jn19:30), declaring that He:
1)    Returned His spirit to the Father of spirits (Lk23:46);
2)    Condemned the devil who caused all men to go astray (1Jn3:8);
3)    Sprinkled His blood, the Spirit of adoption to sonship, and opened the way for the spirits of prodigal sons to return (Jn14:6; Rm8:15; 1Pe1:23, 2:25).
 
He resurrected and ascended to heaven, returning to the Father’s house and
The Holy Spirit whom He sent preaches the name of Yeshua.
 
Christians are those who received His name (Jn1:12),
The prodigal sons who came to their senses and returned to the Father’s house (Lk15:17-20).
Therefore, they do not worry about what to eat (Mt6:25)
But instead keep the commandments of Christ, the food for their souls (Jn6:63; 1Co9:21), and
For their souls they lay their treasures in the Father’s house (Mt6:19-20).
Whether they worship, pray or tithe (Ge28:22; Mt22:21)
They do it all with longing for
They now know the road, the mark back to the Father.
 
O Lord,
Father!
As we give You this first service of 2026,
Let us all know that we are souls who must return to the Father’s house and
Throughout this entire year, every minute, every second, let us turn back!  Amen.