Songs
WATER OBEYED HIM

[INTRO]
THE NAZARENE.
Scientism Drill.
Textbooks study waves.
The waves knew His feet.
Creation knows its King.
[VERSE 1]
Water had laws before labs had charts,
currents ran deep before human arts.
Tides kept time with the moon’s calm pull,
seas stayed wild but the Lord stayed rule.
Man learned buoyancy, pressure and flow,
how deep things sink, how fast streams go.
Wrote fluid maths in a lecture seat,
but Galilee knew the Creator’s feet.
Surface tension with a silver skin,
storm winds whipping the night within.
Disciples saw death in the black wave’s teeth,
then Christ came walking over unbelief.
That’s not myth with a village glow,
that’s matter obeying the One it knows.
Water didn’t panic, water didn’t fight,
liquid creation bore the Lord of light.
Peter stepped out where the deep looked cursed,
faith held briefly, then fear came first.
When his eyes left Christ for the storm’s loud face,
mercy reached down and rewrote the space.
Science can map how the waveforms meet,
but can’t explain why the sea bowed feet.
You can name the force, you can test the foam,
but the water belongs to the Lord on the throne.
[HOOK]
Water obeyed Him, waves knew His name,
Christ walked the surface no formula could tame.
Wind heard His voice, sea lost its rage,
creation bowed when the Lord took stage.
Water obeyed Him, storms had to cease,
King over currents, Commander of peace.
Man studies pressure, depth and flow,
but Jesus tells the raging deep, “Be still,” and it knows.
[VERSE 2]
Job got questioned by thunder and spray,
“Who shut the sea with doors that day?”
“Who told the proud waves, ‘This far, no more’?”
God drew coastlines like a holy door.
Ocean got boundaries before maps were inked,
abyss got measured before sailors blinked.
Leviathan moved where the deep things hide,
still not outside of the Lord’s own stride.
Psalm twenty-nine says the Lord’s voice roars,
over great waters and thunder floors.
Glory shakes forests, lightning splits night,
yet men call nature a self-made sight.
That’s scientism with a blindfold crown,
uses God’s ocean to push God down.
Studies the wave, denies the Speaker,
drinks from the stream, then mocks the Keeper.
Hydrodynamics with a polished name,
still just tracing the Lord’s own frame.
Submarines copy what fish did first,
ships cut water through a borrowed verse.
You didn’t design the sea’s deep grammar,
you learned its alphabet with a human hammer.
Every harbour, hull and sail
borrows from oceans God’s hands unveiled.
So don’t worship charts, don’t worship mind,
don’t worship knowledge that leaves God behind.
The sea has sermons in the salt and foam:
the waters are His, and the earth is His home.
[HOOK]
Water obeyed Him, waves knew His name,
Christ walked the surface no formula could tame.
Wind heard His voice, sea lost its rage,
creation bowed when the Lord took stage.
Water obeyed Him, storms had to cease,
King over currents, Commander of peace.
Man studies pressure, depth and flow,
but Jesus tells the raging deep, “Be still,” and it knows.
[VERSE 3]
Then another night with the boat half-buried,
disciples scared and their heartbeats hurried.
Jesus slept while the storm got loud,
waves climbed high like a grave-dark crowd.
“Master, don’t You care if we drown?”
Fear had a sermon with a broken sound.
He rose, spoke peace to the wind and the spray,
and the weather knelt down in the middle of the day.
Who is this, that the winds obey?
That question still burns through a sceptic age.
Not just teacher, not just sage,
but Lord of creation on a wooden stage.
He turned water to wine at a wedding feast,
joy ran rich where the jars stood least.
No factory line, no vineyard years,
just glory revealed and the kingdom near.
And on the Cross, the Maker thirsted,
water and blood from His side came bursting.
The One who ruled seas was nailed to wood,
dying for sinners in a crimson flood.
Buried for real, then the third day roared,
death got drowned by the risen Lord.
Stone rolled back, grave lost claim,
living water now flows in His name.
Repent from pride in the borrowed explanation,
from calling God absent in His own creation.
Science can study the river and wave,
but only Christ can walk through death and save.
[FINAL HOOK]
Water obeyed Him, waves knew His name,
Christ walked the surface no formula could tame.
Wind heard His voice, sea lost its rage,
creation bowed when the Lord took stage.
Water obeyed Him, storms had to cease,
King over currents, Commander of peace.
Man studies pressure, depth and flow,
but Jesus tells the raging deep, “Be still,” and it knows.
[OUTRO]
Waves knew.
Storms bowed.
Sea heard.
Christ spoke.
Living Water.
Risen Lord.