Tasha Cobbs Leonard - The Name of Our God Lyrics

"The Name of Our God" opens by repeating a simple declaration, no other name compares to the name of Jesus, before moving directly into the words of a well-known hymn about Christ as the solid rock on which all other ground proves unstable. That pairing, contemporary declaration and inherited hymn text, ties the song's confidence in Jesus's name to a long tradition of the same claim.

Its chorus names specific effects attributed to that name, mountains moved and chains loosed, language echoing biblical promises about faith's ability to shift immovable obstacles. The bridge's short declaration, that God is greater wherever fear is great, reduces the song's larger argument to a single, easily repeated contrast between fear and God's greater strength.

Rooted in contemporary gospel worship's declarative repetition, the song functions as an extended proclamation of authority found in Jesus's name, its repeated chorus treating that name as sufficient grounds for confidence regardless of what obstacle is currently faced.