The Night is Far Gone

You aren’t stuck
In the darkness:

“The night is far gone;
The day is at hand” (Rom. 13:12).

I bless your eyes to see
The morning beginning its glimmer.

You stand
At the edge of dawn.
The shadows of
This present evil age
Still fall long upon the earth
But “the night is far gone”
And the “day” of God’s reign
Has begun.

In Christ, your light has come!
The old darkness has lost its rule!
You are a child at daybreak—
Stretching, blinking, and waking
To the glories and grace of God.