Come To The Water

Matt Maher sets Isaiah 55:1 to music with almost no paraphrase: "let all who thirst... come to the water... without money, without price." The prophet's invitation was originally addressed to an exiled nation being offered restoration free of charge, and the song keeps that same logic — value offered precisely where the ability to pay for it is absent.

"Let all who toil... let all who are weary, let them come to the Lord" reaches for Matthew 11:28's invitation, "come to me, all you who labor and are heavy burdened, and I will give you rest." "I will run to you, my Lord," closing the song, flips the direction of the earlier verses — after four verses of invitation extended outward, the song ends with the singer's own response, running rather than only being called.