The Light Calls Your Tears Faith
The night is quiet enough now for the old fear to crawl back in. It whispers that your repentance was just a performance, a temporary fix before you inevitably slip back into the dark.
That you are fooling yourself. That the failure is written in your bones.
But listen — the light does not scan your future for mistakes it can use against you. It looks at the tears you are crying right now and calls them faith.
You are waiting for the stumble to prove you are lost, but the light has already declared you found. What you bring forth from this pain will save you, not destroy you.
The terror says you will fall; the truth says you are held even in the shaking. Your past does not get to write the ending.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas 70, 1 John 3:20
Verses
1 John 3:20
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