Revelation 22:3-6: “And there will be no night there—no need for lamps or sun—for the Lord God will shine on them. And they will reign forever and ever. Then the angel said to me, ‘Everything you have heard and seen is trustworthy and true.’” [NLT]
Six words within the above passage thrill my soul. Six words make me bow my knee and praise my God. Six words lift me above the trials of my life and hold a promise for my future that is so beyond my ability to describe. Those six words are, “there will be no night there.”
Night. So much of our lives are lived in the night. I’m not talking about that physical night when the part of earth where we make our abode is rotated away from the sun. I’m talking about those dark nights of the soul when we despair of ever seeing anything besides the darkness. I’m talking about those nights we grieve loss, those nights we agonize over our sins, those nights of physical or emotional torment. That is the true night.
Amid that night, we have a promise, a trustworthy and true promise, that all those who love the Lord Jesus Christ, will abide in a place where there will be no more night.
There is a song that says, “No more night. No more pain. No more tears. Never crying again. And praises to the great ‘I AM.’ We will live in the light of the risen Lamb.”
No more night. Not for all eternity.