Have you ever forgotten about a song you really, really liked? Then when you hear it you think to yourself, 'Man, I totally love this song!'
This is one of those songs for me. It has spoken to me during circumstances that were very difficult. It has provided encouragement even during times where things weren't that bad, but weren't rainbows and lollipops either.
A famous line from the recent Batman movie, The Dark Knight, goes "the night is always darkest before the dawn", which is a similar idea, though not literally true. But I absolutely love the imagery of this song: "the shadows prove the sunshine", because it is literally true. Shadows exist because there is light behind it all. Difficulties and trials exist for a greater purpose in God's grand scheme of history (James 1:2-4, 1 Peter 4:12-19). Job's life teaches us this, Joseph had to learn this lesson, as did the OT prophets, and of course Jesus' life is the defining illustration of this principle. Whatever we must endure, we can know without a doubt that the shadows prove the sunshine.
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