Ephesians 1:1-6 - Before The First Dark Was Named | Atmospheric Black Metal

Ephesians 1:1-6 (NIV) "Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To God's holy people in Ephesus, the faithful in Christ Jesus: Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will, to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves." You were not an afterthought. Before time had a name, before anything existed that could be called creation, God looked ahead and saw you, and he called you his own. That quiet doubt you carry about whether you really belong to him is not the truth about you. The truth is that you were chosen in love before the world began, not because you earned it, but because that is simply who he is and who he made you to be. Vast. Haunting. Awe-struck. Heavy. Still. Perfect for quiet Sunday mornings alone with God, wrestling with doubt about your identity in Christ, sitting in the weight of grace you did not earn. ---------------------------------------- LYRICS [Intro - shimmering tremolo wall from silence, 8 bars, no vocals] [Verse 1] Before the first dark was named before the waters found their floor a hand moved over nothing and wrote a word the void ignored Not a name called into brightness not a soul that found its way but a choosing made in silence before the first stone learned its weight The crown was set upon the table in the room before the room the door was wide and open before there was a world to move through [Pre-Chorus] This is not a thing you reached for this is not a thing you held you were carried through that doorway before your lungs had learned to breathe [Chorus] Before the first dark was named before the morning had a name before the stars were flung like salt across the black unbroken plain you were chosen you were held you were written in the will before the page was cut before creation learned to feel [Verse 2] Deep and still the water holds it every weight beneath the surface cold and vast and without motion everything in its appointed place So the grace that moved before us moved not because we would believe but because the Father purposed to call sons from what was nothing to lift children through the wide door into light we cannot see Holiness was not the payment holiness was always where it ends not the price that bought the standing but the place the chosen are led in [Pre-Chorus] This is not a thing you reached for this is not a thing you held you were carried through that doorway before your lungs had learned to breathe [Chorus] Before the first dark was named before the morning had a name before the stars were flung like salt across the black unbroken plain you were chosen you were held you were written in the will before the page was cut before creation learned to feel [Instrumental Break - ambient tremolo swell, blast beats dissolving into reverb tail, 16 bars] [Bridge] Praise the glory of the grace that did not wait to find us worthy praised before the world was shaped praised because it is his nature We do not praise because we earned this we do not stand because we stayed we are lifted, we are carried we are named by what he gave Praise the glory praised before the light praised before the darkness answered praised before the first long night [Chorus] Before the first dark was named before the morning had a name before the stars were flung like salt across the black unbroken plain you were chosen you were held you were written in the will before the page was cut before creation learned to feel [Outro] Before the first dark was named before the first dark was named before the first dark before He chose he chose before ---------------------------------------- STAY CONNECTED Comment "CHOSEN" if you have ever felt like a spiritual outsider who was only tolerated, not truly belonging Send this to someone who needs to be reminded that God did not just notice them, he named them as his own before the world ever started. Subscribe for daily scripture-based Christian Metal music. ---------------------------------------- TAGS Ephesians 1:1-6, Ephesians 1, Book of Ephesians, Christian metal, atmospheric black metal, Christian black metal, black metal worship, chosen before the foundation of the world, predestination, adoption in Christ, spiritual blessings, identity in Christ Category: Music Genre: Christian Metal Style: atmospheric black metal, shimmering tremolo walls, distant rasped vocals buried Theme: Election, Adoption, Grace, Belonging Tempo: 144 bpm | Key: D minor