Old For New

Bethel Music names repair rather than replacement in "Old For New" — "what was torn You mend again, You redesign the tattered thread by thread" — describing restoration as detailed, patient work rather than a single instant fix.

"You take the broken and destroyed, You rebuild, You make whole" repeats the same idea in a different register, moving from careful mending to total reconstruction. The chorus turns that process into a title and a declaration at once — "joy, begin to rise, hope, begin to light the dark, our God exchanges old for new" — addressing joy and hope directly as if commanding them into motion.

"Dawn has conquered dark, death has lost to life" states the song's theology in the plainest possible contrasts, and "with You we turn the night to dawn, in You, we walk in the impossible" moves the same reversal from something done to the singer into something done through them. "There's power in the blood, the power of the cross" repeats twice in the bridge, letting the exact same words settle rather than building toward something new, and the returning chorus closes the song on the same exchange it opened with.