I wanted to bury myself. I had returned from my college video studio where I was working on a huge project. I had two problems: my equipment had malfunctioned and my project was overdue. I came that morning in hopes of checking out a camera to reshoot, but I watched in dismay as each of the cameras were handed out to other people who got there before me. It was bright and clear outside, but it felt like I was walking through a rainstorm. Then a song came on inside me. It was like my heart, for a brief moment, was a stereo. I listened as it remedied me softly:
“There is a light It burns brighter than the sun He steals the night And casts no shadow There is hope Should oceans rise and mountains fall He never fails…”
It was a song by Hillsong United entitled “Take Heart”. The song was a calm reminder of the Almighty God whom has conquered the grave and every circumstance that threatens to trodden us. It was hard to watch the street when a song such as this one was moving me to look up at Him (Jesus) from Whom all my help comes from.
When the chorus came around, I had to sing along:
[Chorus:] So take heart Let His love lead us through the night Hold on to hope And take courage again
Even if you feel separated from the world, nothing can separate us from the love of Christ. I felt impressed to give these verses to you, because my hope is that they will strengthen your heart as they did for me:
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
As it is written: “For Your sake we are killed all day long;
We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”
Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.
For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come,
Nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 8:35-39 (NKJV).
All our problems are dissolved in one statement. Jesus said:
“These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.” John 16:33 (NKJV)
It’s funny that God had me write this verse, because the bridge of the song breaks into this:
All our troubles And all our tears God our hope He has overcome All our failure And all our fear God our love He has overcome All our heartache And all our pain God our healer He has overcome All our burdens And all our shame God our freedom He has overcome
In the night of day, there is a Light that burns brighter than the sun: He is Jesus, the Light of the World (John 8:12). And He lives in you.
FOLLOW THE SON 