Above All

Above all powers, above all kings
Above all nature and all created things
Above all wisdom
And all the ways of man
You were here
Before the world began.

Above all kingdoms, above all thrones
Above all wonders the world has ever known
Above all wealth
And treasures of the earth
There's no way to measure what You're worth.

Crucified, laid behind a stone
You lived to die, rejected and alone
Like a rose, trampled on the ground
You took the fall, and thought of me
Above all.
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Perhaps what strikes me so deeply and uniquely about this song is its last line — how one so mighty, and clearly above all earthly powers and kings, could take the fall for another so clearly unworthy, and consider him above all.

This is what sets God "above all". This is also how imperfect Man is made perfect by God alone.