I have long pondered on that lyric. How interesting it would be to witness something like that. Sunlight burning at midnight? Midnight: the darkness part of the night, where nothing but the light from the stars and the moon can guide even the most experienced hiker. For the sun to suddenly began to shine down onto the ground below and illuminate all of the wonders that the night has hidden by darkness, it must be miraculous.
Though this thought is something to truly marvel at, it is also a truly frightening thought. If God's grace can shine down like sunlight at midnight and expose all of the wonders of night, it is safe to assume that this marvelous light will also expose all of the bad. Will we still be loved if the bad of our hearts is shown? Accepted? Trusted? Or will everything that we have pieced together so carefully unravel right before our eyes? Will that holy sunlight melt everything away? Set everything ablaze? Or maybe that's the point, to set the bad ablaze so that it can be burnt away, so that the ground there will be fertile again for God to do His work. Will the burnt pieces still be made beautiful, or were they always beautiful to begin with? Will this sun scar the hearth we grow from? Will we ever be the same?
The truth is we shouldn't want to remain the same after this holy sunlight has pierced through our midnights. Not only must we come to the conclusion that it is IMPOSSIBLE to remain the same, but that this kind of change is good and should be welcomed. God has shown mercy and favor on us.
When He breaks through our darkness and shines a light, a light so glorious we can't remember the darkness and it seems like this Son will never set.
--Maggie Mae
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