Dust or Ashes?

Verse 1
They said that Christians should be laid in ground,
That burial is where the faithful are found.
I opened up the Book and read it through:
It told me what they did, not what to do.

Chorus
Custom is ours; resurrection is His.
Dust or ashes, He knows where each one is.
From grave or sea or fire He calls His own —
Custom is ours; the rising is His alone.

Verse 2
They laid the Lord within a borrowed tomb,
Cut in the rock, a garden's quiet room,
Close at hand before the Sabbath fell —
A gift of haste, and not a rule to tell.

Verse 3
At Jabesh, valiant men walked all the night;
They burned the king and buried him from sight.
And David blessed their loyalty and care;
No curse upon that fire is written there.

Chorus
Custom is ours; resurrection is His.
Dust or ashes, He knows where each one is.
From grave or sea or fire He calls His own —
Custom is ours; the rising is His alone.

Verse 4
Is it a command? Is it what someone did?
Or is it a picture, with a meaning hid?
Ask it of each verse they quote to you,
And keep God's word apart from what we do.

Bridge
The grave is slow, the fire is quick — the same:
To dust you shall return, and He knows your name.
The sea will give its dead, the earth its own;
Not one is lost to Him who calls them home.

Final Chorus
Custom is ours; resurrection is His.
Dust or ashes, He knows where each one is.
From grave or sea or fire He calls His own —
Custom is ours; the rising is His alone.