In your darkest night may be a way of expressing a difficult time for you. It was a circumstance in which you saw no hope nor way out. Helpless and hopeless, you wondered when all this would end. Sooner or later, all of us will come to the darkest night of our journey in life. It's a time when all you can do is pray and wait for a breakthrough. Hoping that a brighter day is coming, you wait in a time that seems endless.
In the darkest point of your night, suddenly you notice a sparkle of light above. You would have never noticed the breakthrough of the morning star if total darkness had not been the background. It announces a new day is coming. Things will become brighter. Hope, though ever so small, declares everything is about to change.
So it is with your life. No one can promise you that there will never be a dark night of the soul. But, this too shall pass. Hope brightens your heart that God has prepared something better for you. Yes, your new day is coming. Things will be brighter. The load will become lighter. You can believe the good news, because the morning star has given you hope that is sure.
Christ himself is the morning star of our lives. Jesus said, "I am the bright morning star" (Revelation 22:16, NLT). He is the only hope that we have in the darkness of night. His plan will prevail. He will take our darkness away. He died in darkness on the cross to take away our sins, guilt, and shame. He brings light into our lives that no one else can offer. Even the darkness of death is vanished with the brightness of his resurrection. He has prepared a new day for you. One day all darkness will give way to the one eternal day in Christ.
