Let There Be Light

In the dark and dim recesses of eternity past,
In the high, vaulted chambers of the heavens so vast,
'Twas all inky blackness for ever and 'aye,
No light would ever be seen by the eye.

As ages rolled on 'twas always the same,
No light from a star, from a lamp or a flame.
For there was never a source of light ever born
To pierce the great darkness and bring on the morn.

For eons and eons the darkness prevailed
As a dark, conq'ring demon that had all impaled.
The darkness, victorious, ruled in its might,
One long, never-ending, unquenchable night.

And then, of a sudden, in the midst of the night,
There thundered from God the words "Let there be light!"
And the darkness rolled back as the light issued forth
To the East and the West and the South and the North.

Now darkness will never again have full sway -
Moon and stars rule the night and the sun rules the day.
Darkness eternal has had its great fall,
And God, who is light, rules high over all.

E'en so was my life once ruled by the night;
For, oh, far too long, was the darkness my plight.
Nor reason nor wisdom could pierce the dark cloud
And my life was enveloped by a dark, smoth'ring shroud.

'Twas darkness without and darkness within;
Darkness held sway, accomp'nied by sin.
And never a thought came to mind of the light,
And I relished the darkness and reveled in night.

And then, oh the day, I remember it well
When the light issued forth and pierced my dark shell.
It flooded my being, it flooded my soul,
I could see, I could feel, I could hear, I was whole!

Then Jesus came in and my chains fell away
And I rose up to walk in an endless new day.
Though darkness may come, 'twill ne'er rule again
For His blood has now covered my guilt and my sin.

And I walk in the light as a child of the King
Who has saved me from shame and from guilt and all things
That once were as darkness to my dark, troubled soul;
I'm a child of the light, I'm cleansed and I'm whole.