Are you waiting for someone else to move first?
“Our Rising Tide” by Maukele Soul reflects on that question. The song starts small, Maukele describing the sky hanging low, “heavy with sorrow, thick with waiting.” Anyone who’s scrolled the news lately knows that feeling. The weight piles up fast. But Maukele answers, simple and sure: “And still, we move. And still, we rise.” That’s the key theme for the song in two short lines.
Maukele Soul didn’t write a song about waiting for permission. The verse insists that “every freedom ever tasted began with one trembling hand holding steady.” Not a hundred hands. Not a perfect plan. One small step at a time. The chorus circles back to this truth like a heartbeat: “One small step… that’s how the mountain moves.” Mountains don’t care how scared your hand is shaking. They move anyway, one step at a time.
Read Philippians 4:13: “I can do all things through him who strengthens me.” The apostle Paul wrote that from a prison cell, not a stage. He wasn’t claiming superhuman strength. He was admitting his own trembling hands and trusting God to hold them steady anyway.
So what’s your mountain today? Maybe it’s a hard conversation that you’ve been avoiding. Maybe it’s a habit that you can’t seem to break, or a fear that’s kept you seated when you should be standing up. You don’t need certainty. You need one step. Take it. Let your answer sing.
Listen to this song today and let it remind you of what your courage under God’s leadership already proves. “Did you rise? Did you act? Did you love this land enough to stand? Let your answer sing, child — Yes.”
(Related scripture: Philippians 4:13; Joshua 1:9; Galatians 6:9)
Release date: June 15, 2026
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