An Overturned Lantern - Front and Center - 07/21/2017
Channel: Ryan Vegh
Date: 2019-12-12

A song I wrote after a relationship ended... What I had put seemingly all my hope into turned out to be merely a smashed, overturned lantern, whose light was fading and eventually died.

But this false hope needed to die to give room in my heart for the greatest hope -- that of Jesus Christ and His glorious light, which shines like a streetlamp, the light of which consumes me and burns away my old life with its impurities.

As the apostle Paul said, "I am crucified with Christ, and yet I live -- but not I; Christ lives in me. The life I live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me." (Galatians 2:20)

So, too, my old life was burned away in the flames of Christ's glory, and now instead of living for the "us" of that old relationship I was in, I can choose to live in the "us" of me and Jesus, my Savior, who is the greatest lover and my perfect hope.

(Since the writing of this song, the LORD has blessed me with a wonderful wife, whom I love. :))