How Great Is Our God
Chris Tomlin · Arriving
A direct, scripture-saturated call to worship God's greatness.
Where the words land
Signal: Edifying.
What do these signals mean?
- Edifying: Points the heart toward God, truth, hope, or love.
- Worth Weighing: Real good and real concern together. Test it before you take it in.
- Strained: Strains against Scripture: leans toward what could dull or mislead.
- At Odds: At odds with Scripture: celebrates what it warns against. Little here builds up.
Weighed against Scripture
“He wraps Himself in light”
“He wraps Himself in light as with a garment; He stretches out the heavens like a tent,”
Directly mirrors the imagery of God covering Himself with light as a garment.
“The Lion and the Lamb”
Then one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep! Behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has triumphed to open the scroll and its seven seals.” Then I saw a Lamb who appeared to have been slain, standing in the center of the throne, encircled by the four living creatures and the elders. The Lamb had seven horns and seven eyes, which represent the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth.
Draws on the vision of Christ as both conquering Lion and sacrificial Lamb, a title the song applies to Jesus.
The song as a whole
“The LORD reigns! He is robed in majesty; the LORD has clothed and armed Himself with strength. The world indeed is firmly established; it cannot be moved.”
Echoes the psalmist's picture of the Lord robed in majesty and reigning over creation.
“Before the mountains were born or You brought forth the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting You are God.”
Affirms God's eternal existence before and beyond all time, matching the song's claim of His timeless reign.
“Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,”
Names the triune formula the song celebrates, grounding its theology in Christ's own words.
Words of Christ are set in red.
In short
This is a clear, joyful worship song built almost entirely from scriptural imagery describing God's majesty, eternity, and triune nature. It carries no ambiguity or tension; its purpose is to lead a congregation into praise. There's little here to weigh critically, as it simply declares what Scripture already affirms about God's greatness.
What do these ratings mean?
- Lyrical content, what the words say on the surface. Clean: nothing coarse, sexual or violent. Mild: a trace of it, by allusion or a rare word. Strong: profanity, sex or violence in plain words. Explicit: graphic, or sin held up to admire.
- Spiritual posture, where the song's heart points. God-honoring: toward God, truth or hope. Searching: honestly reaching or wrestling toward truth, without arriving. Neutral: spiritually indifferent; neither reaches nor rejects. Dark: despairing, nihilistic, self-exalting or hostile to God.
- Apparent intent, what the song is for. Edifying: worship, encouragement, honest lament. Cathartic: letting grief, anger or longing out, told honestly. Ambiguous: hard to say what the song is for. Harmful: celebrates evil, mocks faith or draws toward sin.
Does this song's declaration of God's greatness match how you actually see and trust Him in daily life?
An AI-assisted reading. It can misread a lyric, a metaphor or a song’s intent.
