I was dust before I knew You
I was breath without a word
All creation spoke around me
But I had not learned what I had heard
The stars had called You Elohim
Before my eyes could see their light
The oceans knew the boundaries
You had spoken into night
The cobalt waited in my blood
The eye was waiting for the flame
Everything that made me living
Knew Your power before my name
I woke inside a world prepared
Long before my first request
The universe had learned Your greatness
I was learning I was blessed
I knew You first as thunder
I knew You first as flame
The heavens called You Elohim
The shepherd spoke Your Name
But when the Son stood near us
He taught our breath to say
The Maker of the universe
Has placed Abba on our lips today
Abraham had called You Friend
Before the temples crowned the hill
David called You Shepherd
When the valley had grown still
Isaiah saw the smoke arise
Then found the Father in the clay
We are the work within Your hands
And distance bent that day
Every name revealed a doorway
Every doorway showed us more
But none of us could cross the distance
Till the Son became the door
I knew You first as thunder
I knew You first as flame
The heavens called You Elohim
The shepherd spoke Your Name
But when the Son stood near us
He taught our breath to say
The Maker of the universe
Has placed Abba on our lips today
Johannes heard it at the river
This is My beloved Son
The Spirit rested on the water
What was promised had begun
And then the Son looked at the strangers
At the wounded and the blamed
When you pray, begin together
Our Father is His chosen name
Not mine alone
Not yours alone
No private God
No guarded throne
If He is ours
Then you are mine
Not as possession
But as bloodline
We knew You first as thunder
We knew You first as flame
The heavens called You Elohim
And holy is Your Name
But when the Son stood among us
He gave our breath a claim
The Maker of the universe
And Abba is His chosen name
Not chosen to diminish
The glory or the throne
But chosen so the orphan
Would never pray alone
The Maker of the universe
Whom stars and angels praise
Has placed Abba on our lips
And Our Father in our days
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