Keep me.  There are some songs that I hear, they instantly hit home for me and they become part of the soundtrack of my life.  That happened again when I listened to Crowder’s KEEP ME.  It’s a unique sound, but lyrics are what always grab my heart.  Read all the lyrics HERE.

So why did this song hit home?  I think I can answer your question, but telling you a story from life before we left for our month in the States.  I met up with a friend, who doesn’t have the same beliefs as me, but whenever I see him, I’m encouraged and we have very real conversation.  He asked me, “How are you?”  I knew the answer in my head and I had a quick wrestling match in my head, where I was asking myself, “Do I be honest or give the ‘nice Christian’ answer?”  In the past I would have gone with the “nice Christian” answer because I thought I couldn’t be honest, if it wasn’t positive.  However, in the last year, I’ve learned that we need to be honest more than we need to be nice.

I decided to be honest.  So I looked at him and said, “It’s been really, really rough,” then a proceeding in telling him, how difficult this fall had been, when we had expected it to be a little bit more relaxed after a crazy spring and summer, capped off by THIS EVENT.  As I shared, in brief, about how it was tough, I told him, “You know what?  The best argument I have for the existence of God, is that I’m still here in Czech.  After all these years of  disappointment, unkept promises, betrayal and etc., if God didn’t exist I would have left years ago.”

Then I plainly said, “The Lord has lovely kept me here.”

Lord keep me
Walkin’, walkin’, walkin’
Lord keep…

I lay down and slept;
I woke again, for the LORD sustained me.