13/09/2026
As we step into the year 5787 of the Hebrew Calendar.
This is not simply another number. These are years that seem to whisper to us to: “PAY ATTENTION.”
The Hebrew year 5787, which began at sundown on September 11, 2026, is remarkable in several ways.
5787 is a leap year: an extra month is added to the Hebrew calendar.
It is also the longest possible Jewish year: 385 days.
Remarkably, 5787 begins with Shabbat and ends with Shabbat, surrounding the entire year with a picture of rest and holiness.
Rosh Hashanah begins on Shabbat, meaning the shofar is not sounded on the first day but on the second day.
And according to Hebrew rabbis, the number 385 has a striking connection to Shekinah: the Divine Presence and to speech.
This has been reflected upon as a call to sanctify our words and make our lives places where God's presence is welcomed.
But here is what grips my heart the most: What if we stopped asking, “What does this year mean for me?” and started asking, “Lord, what are You asking of me?”
Because a new year is not merely an opportunity for a new calendar. IIt is an opportunity for a new surrender, a new turning, a deeper repentance.
A cleaner heart, quieter soul and a greater hunger for God.
The 10 High Holy Days begin with a call to teshuvah... a returning.
And isn't that what so many of us need? Not another year of pretending, or another year of carrying the same bitterness, not another year of secret compromise, not another year of religious activity without intimacy and not another year of looking holy on the outside while the heart is slowly growing cold.
THE CALL IS RETURN.
Return to the secret place, to prayer, to the Word, to holiness, to obedience, to your first love, to Jesus.
The shofar is traditionally understood as a wake-up call and that is the word we need entering this season: WAKE UP.
Wake up before another year passes, before the opportunity to reconcile passes, before your heart becomes comfortable with what once grieved you.
Wake up before prayer becomes routine and holiness becomes optional. Wake up before you become so busy doing things FOR God that you forget to simply BE WITH God.
This year 5787 should not make us obsessed with dates. It should make us more awake to eternity. It should not make us speculate about prophetic timelines. It should make us examine our hearts.
It should not make us run after signs, it should make us run after Jesus because ultimately, our hope is not in a number.
Our hope is not in a calendar, or in a season. Our hope is in Christ. So as 5787 begins, may we not merely say, “Happy New Year.”
May heaven find us saying: “Search me, O God.” “Make me clean.” “Teach me to number my days.” “Restore to me the joy of Your salvation.” “Jesus, I want You more than I want another year.”
Maybe 5787 is not about discovering what will happen. Maybe it is about allowing God to discover what is really inside us. The greatest preparation for what is ahead is not knowing the future,
but knowing the One who holds it.
5787 has begun and the question is not merely, “What kind of year will this be?” The deeper question is: “What kind of people will we become before God?”
..May this be a year of returning, a year of repentance, a year of holiness, a year of deeper intimacy, a year where our homes become places of prayer, our mouths become instruments of blessing, and our lives become dwelling places where the presence of God is honored ❤️🔥
