"Even the darkness is not dark to You"

Sometimes He just reaches in, right to the heart of where we are, right into the depth of the darkness that surrounds us, and takes a hold of us. It's not when we expect it and maybe we don't even know the darkness is closing in, but He doesn't care. He sees the darkness but is not afraid. After all, He has already conquered it. He reaches right into it and pulls us out into the light.

"If I say 'surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,' even the darkness will not be dark to You; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to You."

-Psalm 139:11-12

The key part of this is that He has overcome the darkness. Forever. It's finished. He gave everything to win back our hearts from the darkness of this world. He loves us that much. There was no way out for us, so He gave us one. The best one. The one thing that could ever bring us back into the beautiful light that is His love. He gave us Christ.

"In Him was life, and that life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it."

-John 1:4-5

So why do we live in darkness when we have already been saved from it? Because we simply don't understand the extent to which He loves us! It's a whole heck of a lot, let me tell you. But even though we still turn away over and over and find ourselves in the darkness again and again, He continues to reach in, just like He did the first time, and pull us out. He never fails to be the light in the darkness. And when I say never, I really mean never.