The Night Is A Vigil Kept For You
The ceiling is still there, and the secret feels heavier in the silence than it did in the daylight. You are wondering if this wakefulness is a sentence, a divine penalty for the thing you have not spoken.
But listen — the darkness has not overcome the light that lives inside you, and it never will. The light is not keeping you awake to punish you; it is staying up to keep you company.
You are not being prosecuted by the night; you are being held by the One who sees everything and loves you anyway. The secret is safe, but you are safer still.
The watch is not a trial; it is a vigil kept over you by the very light you fear.
Drawing from
John 1:5, 1 John 3:20
Verses
John 1:5, 1 John 3:20
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