Okay, this is definitely one that gets to be in the "praise genre but good" section. Guitar-friendly key, chorus/verse structure, catchy enough to sing at church camp. I think it used to be categorized as Epiphany (or post-Epiphany, Transfiguration?) but is now in the Witness section, which feels less relevant. Is it like "This Little Light of Mine," ie, we're expecting our lives to reflect Jesus' light? I guess. I also don't really know what the "river" is, it doesn't seem to be a metaphor for heaven in this case. Maybe, like, physical rivers provide nourishment for crops, and we want God's river to provide mercy for every land? I guess...

I'm being hard on it here in the last couple lines but this one actually is very good.

I'm going to go ahead and tag this one "praise genre but good" because I'm worried we might never use that tag again, and while hilarious, that seems a little sad. It's decent. A major is good for guitarists and string pals; the verse/refrain structure is pretty "modern," and I like that they say "okay stanza 1 is immediately followed by stanza 2, all the other verses you go to the refrain afterwards."

All the verses are in quote marks, even though they're all God talking to humans, you'd think they could just leave those out.

The mapping of words to notes is very loose, which gets it the "irregular" meter tag.

The rhyme scheme starts out decent, we make it to "shame/name" in verse 3, and then in verse 4 "name/pain." So not only a weird slant rhyme, but also duplicating one we already had, ouch!