Looking for the light in the darkness...

 

 

 

My best friend from college sent this to me about a week ago.  I wanted to share it. 

 I have always liked the image that the darkness cannot overtake the light.  I think it was sometime in college when I first heard the words from Hillsongs, song "From the Inside out" that say:

"Your light will shine when all else fades"

Over the last week, the Lord has been speaking to my broken heart (through lyrics) and the holy spirit interceding when I am at a loss for what to pray.  Which reminded me of Romans 8:26-27:

²⁶ In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. ²⁷ And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God.

It has been comforting to sit in this truth.  This is what I held onto in the first few hours of finding out. When I was paralyzed and in shock.

Any who, back to the part about how the Lord has been speaking to my heart and using lyrics to do that and remind me of how to pray.  These lyrics have put how I have been feeling into words.  A task that I have been failing at lately.

When I'm overcome by fear
And I hate everything I know
If this waiting lasts forever
I'm afraid I might let go
(All Sons and Daughters: "Reason to Sing")

and yet,
When I don't understand, I will choose you
When I don't understand I will choose you God
When I don't understand I will choose to love you God
(Bryan and Katie Torwalt's: "I breathe you in, God")

And my hope can be:
One day you will set all things right
(JJ Heller: "Your hands")

Because its not right. (holy smokes, cue tears).  Sometimes it is overwhelmingly freeing to just speak that truth.  That it is not right.  Nothing will ever make this right.  Only the one, the one who pours grace and love out onto us, is big enough and good enough for even this.