Marvelous Light - Charlie Hall

Ever felt like you spent your day living in the dark? Maybe you chose to be there. Maybe you wanted to hide. Maybe you felt bad about something you had done, shamed by your behavior. Maybe someone else thrust you into a dark place by something they did to you. Maybe you think that all you deserve is to live in the darkness. Maybe you can't see where light could possibly come from.

"Into the marvelous light I'm running, out of darkness out of shame"

Put the dark at your back, and run. Run away from the darkness, and away from the shame.

"By the cross You are the truth, You are the life, You are the way"

Run towards the cross, the truth, the life the way.

"I once was fatherless, a stranger with no hope; Your kindness wakened me, awakened me, from my sleep"

I have lived far too many days "fatherless, with no hope". Both before and after I met Jesus, I fall prey to these thoughts. It's the trap that Satan likes to use on me - "you are alone, you have no hope...you are worthless, and you have screwed up too big."

"Sin has lost it's power, death has lost it's sting. From the grave You've risen VICTORIOUSLY!"

Satan is a liar. Where God says "You may eat anything" Satan says "You may NOT". Where God says "there is no condemnation" Satan says "you are worthless".

But here's the truth: sin has lost it's power. From the grave Jesus rose victoriously, that we might sing:

"My dead heart now is beating, My deepest stains now clean. Your breath fills up my lungs. Now I'm free. Now I'm free!"

So, like a child, lift your hands and spin in the light! Know that the darkness doesn't have to claim you, that God would love to shine his marvelous light on you, wherever you are. Run for him. Run out of the shame and fall at the cross, be lifted up into His freedom and light.


I once was fatherless,
a stranger with no hope;
Your kindness wakened me,
Awakened me, from my sleep

Your love it beckons deeply,
a call to come and die.
By grace now I will come
And take this life, take Your life.

Sin has lost it's power,
death has lost it's sting.
From the grave You've risen
VICTORIOUSLY!

Into marvelous light I'm running,
Out of darkness, out of shame.
By the cross you are the truth,
You are the life, you are the way

My dead heart now is beating,
My deepest stains now clean.
Your breath fills up my lungs.
Now I'm free. Now I'm free!

Lift my hands and spin around,
See the light that I have found.
Oh the marvelous light
Marvelous light

Lift my hands and spin
See the light within