Decision

Josh Garrels turns a plainspoken invitation into a song about the moment a person stops pretending. The verses address a brother and a sister by name, urging each to open their eyes, drop the lies the devil has been feeding them, and take off the mask they wear so they can face what is actually killing them. There is no scolding here — the singer admits he has been down the same road, that he has been lonely too, and that he is in love with the person he is singing to. The turning point comes when the chorus of outside voices insisting that living in darkness every night is fine gets answered with a quiet refusal: it is time. From there the song moves into confession and release, a willingness to give up sin even without knowing where to begin, and then into the image of running through the night toward the light of the sun. The closing lines land on freedom, a new morning, gratitude for what God has done in him, and a promise to meet again at the end of time. It is a song about decision as an act of honesty rather than drama.