Lyrics
Verse 1 (Repeat)
Your love is higher than the mountain tops
Your strength a river that won't ever stop
Your mercy is endless and covers every wrong
You are always and forever God
Verse 2
If it wasn't for Your love for us
We'd be drifting on the ocean lost
Your love has pulled us from the miry clay
The rock of ages who will never change
Chorus (Repeat)
Everlasting - Bwana upendo wa milele
Everlasting - Baba neema ya milele
Everlasting - Yesu Rehema Ya milele
Everlasting - Milele na milele
Verse 3
Your name has power over everything
Your word a fountain of everlasting peace
Your voice is thunder to the enemy
You are always and forever God
Verse 2 (Repeat)
Chorus (Repeat)
Bridge
No one (No one) Nothing (nothing)
Compares to You God
Your love endures for all of time
Chorus (Repeat)
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Meaning & Inspiration
"Everlasting" opens with a series of comparisons, love higher than mountain tops, strength an unstoppable river, mercy endless enough to cover every wrong, before resting on one repeated title, always and forever God. That accumulation of superlatives frames the entire song's praise as reaching for language adequate to describe permanence.
Its second verse names a specific rescue, pulled from miry clay rather than left drifting lost, before calling God the rock of ages who never changes. That image, unstable drifting replaced by an unchanging rock, grounds the song's declared permanence in personal, remembered deliverance.
Sung bilingually in English and Swahili within African worship tradition, the song functions as an extended declaration of God's unending love, grace, and mercy, its chorus naming each divine attribute as everlasting in both languages, its bridge concluding that nothing else compares to a love that endures through all of time.
Related Scripture
- Psalm 40:2 Describes being lifted from miry clay onto solid ground, directly echoed in the song's second verse.
- Psalm 136:1 Declares that God's love endures forever, directly echoed in the song's repeated chorus.