Children's Song

Josh Garrels opens "Children's Song" on his knees, asking for mercy and naming Christ as shelter from a world that pulls him down. That posture of need gives way to an invitation — mind, heart, and soul thrown open so Jesus can make a broken man whole. The chorus then lifts the room: hands raised to the risen king, a call for the children to sing, and a repeated hallelujah that names him ruler over everything. The second verse turns toward endurance, carrying the cross, the pain, and the love, with the confession that we don't belong here but to the father above. Garrels doesn't soften the cost — he sings of a broken body and flowing blood that paid for sin. Near the end he echoes Jesus' own words about trouble in this world, then answers them: Christ overcame the world, our body is his temple, and worship stretches on forevermore. The song holds plea and praise in the same breath, moving from a kneeling request for mercy to a congregation of children declaring God's rule, with the cross standing at the center of both.