He bent the light on hidden seams
And hammered dawn from sleeping dreams
Each star a nail in velvet night
Each breath of wind to forge delight
He shaped the rivers long and wild
Like silver threads the valleys styled
He carved the mountains bold and steep
With steady hands that do not sleep
He pressed the oceans into place
And taught the tides their rise and grace
Each crest and fall, each pull and shove
The rhythm of a forger's love
Every strike a measured will
Every silence speaking still
Every line and curve and scar
Signed by the Maker near and far
He is the forger of love
Shaping the dust from above
Breathing the fire into bone
Calling the broken His own
He is the forger of love
Hands marked with heavens above
Every creation can see
The mark of eternity
He shaped the heart with fragile flame
And whispered life into the frame
He bent the will yet left it free
A mystery of sovereignty
He knew the fracture yet to come
The fall that leaves the spirit numb
Still set the hammer to the flame
And forged us knowing all our shame
The iron cooled in Eden's shade
The fracture deep, the trust betrayed
The forge went quiet, dark and still
Yet love remained within His will
Through prophets' words and fire and stone
He called the wandering back to home
The furnace burned with patient breath
Preparing love to conquer death
Every strike now echoes pain
Every scar a crimson stain
Every blow the cost of grace
Love would take the sinner's place
He is the forger of love
Shaping the dust from above
Breathing the fire into bone
Calling the broken His own
He is the forger of love
Hands marked with heavens above
Every creation can see
The mark of eternity
Then the forger stepped inside
The world His hands had once designed
Laid aside the flame and throne
Took the flesh upon His own
Nails would pierce the hands that formed
The stars and seas and fields of corn
And blood would fall like molten flame
To cleanse the work that bore His name
He is the forger of love
Now scarred from heaven above
Bearing the weight of the fall
Giving His life for us all
He is the forger of love
Crowned with the thorns we spoke of
Every creation now sees
The cost of eternity
The cost of eternity
The hammer rests, the fire glows low
But every soul He shaped will know
The hands that formed both sky and sea
Were pierced to set the captive free
5:14
