Lyrics
Verse
It's always like springtime with You
Making all things new
Your light is breaking through the dark
This love it is sweeter than wine
Bringing joy, bringing life
Your hope is rising like the dawn
Chorus
This is what You do
This is what You do
You make me come alive
Refrain (Repeat x3)
You make me come alive
Outro
It's like I'm living for the first time
Finally living for the first time
Video
Meaning & Inspiration
"This Is What You Do" opens by comparing God's presence to perpetual springtime, naming renewal and breaking light as ordinary, expected characteristics rather than rare exceptions. That seasonal image, constant spring rather than occasional thaw, frames the entire song around continual rather than occasional restoration.
Its chorus names that restoration directly as personal, coming alive rather than remaining merely renewed in the abstract. Repeating that phrase without further explanation lets the simple claim of newfound life carry the song's central weight on its own.
Rooted in contemporary children's worship tradition, the song functions as a joyful declaration of being made new and brought to life, its closing lines describing that renewal as feeling like living for the very first time, treating spiritual awakening as more vivid and real than any prior experience of being alive.
Related Scripture
- 2 Corinthians 5:17 Describes becoming a new creation in Christ, directly echoed in the song's description of all things being made new.
- Lamentations 3:23 Describes mercies new every morning, echoed in the song's image of perpetual springtime renewal.