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My Father's World
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Sep 29, 2026 updated
My Father's World - EP album
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Song Meaning
Chris Tomlin's "My Father's World" (with Aodhán King, Jamie MacDonald & CalledOut Music) carries Maltbie Babcock's 1901 hymn, written after walks the pastor used to take along Lake Ontario that he called going out "to see the Father's world." "All nature sings, and round me rings the music of the spheres" treats creation itself as already worshiping before anyone joins in.
"In rustling grass I hear Him pass, He's speaking everywhere" leans on the same idea the psalmist opens with — the earth is the Lord's, and everything in it, ownership woven into the very fabric of the physical world rather than layered on top of it. The hymn doesn't need a dramatic scene to make its point; an ordinary field does the job.
"So let me not forget that though the wrong seems often strong, God is the Ruler yet" is the hinge that keeps the hymn from being naive nostalgia about nature — a direct admission that the world often looks like it's run by something other than God, paired with a refusal to actually believe that. "He reigns, He reigns, forever on the throne" answers the doubt not with an argument but with a repeated fact.
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This is my Father's world
And to my listening ears
All nature sings, and round me rings
The music of the spheres
This is my Father's world:
I rest here in the thought
Of rocks and trees, of skies and seas
His hand the wonders brought
He reigns
He reigns
Forever on the throne
He reigns
He reigns
This is my Father's world
This is my Father's world:
The birds, their carols raise
The morning light, the lily white
Declare their Maker's praise
This is my Father's world:
He shines in all that's fair
In rustling grass I hear Him pass
He's speaking everywhere
This is my Father's world:
So let me not forget
That though the wrong seems often strong
God is the Ruler yet
This is my Father's world:
Why should my heart be sad
He is the King: let heaven sing
And let the Earth be glad!