All Nations Music - Glory Rise Lyrics

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All Nations Music - Glory Rise (Official Audio) ft. Cristabel Clack, Candy West

Meaning & Inspiration

I’ve been sitting with this song for a bit, just letting those repeated lines move around in my head. There is something about the way it keeps coming back to the phrase "let it rise" that feels almost like trying to build an atmosphere, you know? It puts me in mind of how the Psalms talk about incense going up before the Lord, like David saying his prayer should be set forth as incense. It makes me wonder if our worship is actually supposed to "fill the sky" in a literal sense, or if that’s just a way of describing the internal posture of a room full of people. When I think about Scripture, I keep landing on how God’s glory isn't really something we generate ourselves, but rather something we are responding to, like how the earth is already full of His glory if we’d just open our eyes to it.

Then they hit that line, "His mercy endureth forever," which is straight out of the Chronicles and the Psalms. It’s comforting, really, hearing that repeated back to God because it grounds the whole thing in who He is rather than just how we feel in the moment. But I’m wrestling a little with the shift from His mercy to our own worship. Is the glory rising because we are doing something, or because He is already there? The lyrics make it sound like a momentum thing, like we are stoking a fire. It makes me feel a bit uneasy, questioning if I’m trying to bring glory to a place that He already inhabits, or if I’m just shouting into the air hoping something happens. I’m not sure if the song lands on the fact that He is the one who initiates the glory, or if it leaves us stuck trying to manufacture a moment that only He can provide.