"You Are Worthy"

I look up and the stars are still burning, a hundred billion fires you lit by name. Every dawn breaks open like a promise and still they say that no one lit the flame. A child breathes her first breath, and they call it chance. The oceans hold their boundaries, and they call it luck. A hummingbird sings, suspends on wings that beat a thousand times, and they shrug and look away as if your fingerprints aren't everywhere. But the heavens keep on speaking day after day their speech pours out. There is no place on this earth where their witness is not heard. So how long will the blind stay blind? How long will the deaf refuse to hear? You are worthy, Jehovah! You are worthy of the glory, the honor and the power because you created all things, and because of your will they came into existence! Every star that burns, you spoke it. Every heartbeat, you designed it. You are worthy, Jehovah, you are worthy of it all. But I close my eyes. and I see them the twenty-four elders on their knees, casting golden crowns before the throne of the One who lives forever. They don't hesitate. They don't debate. They fall down because they know. Every angel, every creature full of eyes day and night, they never stop: "Holy, holy, holy is Jehovah, the Almighty, who was and is and is coming." And I wonder, if they could see what I see, if they could lift their eyes just once, past the noise, past the pride, past the theories would they finally fall down too? You are worthy, Jehovah! You are worthy of the glory, the honor and the power because you created all things, and because of your will they came into existence! The mountains and the oceans, you commanded them. The heavens and the creatures, your hands fashioned them. You are worthy, Jehovah, you are worthy of it all! Jehovah… it breaks me, that they walk past every sunrise and never once ask who painted it. It breaks me that a mother holds her newborn and thanks the universe instead of you. But I have seen the evidence. I have held it in my hands. Your invisible qualities have been clearly seen since the world began your eternal power, your Godship and they are without excuse. So I will be the one. I will open my mouth. I will lift my voice until every ear has heard: You are worthy, Jehovah! You are worthy of the glory, the honor and the power! Because you created all things and because of your will they came into existence and were created! Let the sun and moon praise you! Let the shining stars praise you! Let the mountains and the seas, let the creatures and the kings, let every tongue that draws a breath declare your name is unreachably high! Fear God! Give him glory! Worship the One who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and the springs of water! And the day is coming I can see it when every creature in heaven and on earth will lift their voice as one and the sound will never end: You are worthy, you are worthy, you are worthy, Jehovah and one day every knee will bend, and every living thing will know. You are worthy You are worthy You've been worthy And I will spend every breath I have left making sure they hear it. Because of your will, we exist. And that is enough to worship you forever.