Stronger Than A Thousand Seas

PlanetShakers' “Stronger Than a Thousand Seas” is about the reliability of Christ's love. It opens with a list of words that each begin with a negation, “Undenied, unfailing, undefeated, unchanging,” and later, “unrestrained, unrivaled, unashamed, unbridled, invincible.” The listing sets the tone: what is described cannot be stopped, bought or worn down.

The first section turns the list toward the cross: “For You took the cross when all hope had been lost, and no power could stand in the way of Your love.” The chorus then gives the image from the title, a love “higher than the heavens, stronger than a thousand seas, constant through the seasons, closer than the air I breathe.” The singer says, “God, Your love can never fail,” and the bridge becomes an act of wonder with the words “How great, how strong, how awesome is our God. I stand in awe of the never failing love of Jesus.” The wording is simple enough that a whole congregation can pick it up on the first hearing.

Nothing separating us from his love is Romans 8:38-39. The breadth and height of Christ's love is Ephesians 3:18-19, and steadfast love reaching to the heavens is Psalm 36:5.