<h1>December 18,&nbsp;2024 How Can You Leave 2024...and Make&nbsp;2025 Better? - Karen Hardin</h1>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;How do you want to leave 2024—and enter 2025? What will you leave behind and what will you take with you? How we enter/leave a job, position and even a year is important. We have an opportunity as we enter 2025 both corporately (as a nation) and individually, but it requires an action on our part. Are you ready to break off the yoke that has been on you? Yokes aren’t always a bad thing. A young ox is yoked to a more mature and experienced ox to train them how to pull together and walk. Also, we are yoked to Christ when we receive him as our Lord. Matthew 11:28-30 says, “Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light” (NIV 1995). But what about yokes that have been placed on us by others or because of events? Many are carrying yokes of oppression, depression, disappointment, lack, rage, etc. from what has been done to you or happened to you. The longer it has been there, the more it has seemed like it would always be there. But it doesn’t have to be. <strong>To be free requires an action on our part.</strong></p>
