I’ve been thinking ’bout time
And where does it go
How can I stop my life from passing me by, I don’t know
I’ve been thinking ’bout family and how it’s going so fast
Will I wake up one morning just wishing that I could go back
I’ve been thinking ’bout lately, maybe
I can make a change and let you change me
So, with all of my heart this is my prayer

Singing oh Lord, keep me in the moment
Help me live with my eyes wide open
‘Cause I don’t wanna miss what you have for me
Singing oh Lord, show me what matters
Throw away what I’m chasing after
‘Cause I don’t wanna miss what you have for me
Keep me in the moment
Oh, keep me in the moment
Keep me in the moment
‘Cause I don’t wanna miss what you have for me

When I wake up in the morning
Lord, search my heart
Don’t let me stray, I just wanna stay where you are
All I got is one shot, one try
One go around in this beautiful life
Nothing is wasted when everything’s placed in your hands

Singing oh Lord, keep me in the moment
Help me live with my eyes wide open
‘Cause I don’t wanna miss what you have for me
Singing oh Lord, show me what matters
Throw away what I’m chasing after
‘Cause I don’t wanna miss what you have for me
Keep me in the moment
Oh, keep me in the moment (Keep me in the moment)
Keep me in the moment
‘Cause I don’t wanna miss what you have for me

I’ve been thinking about heaven
And the promise you hold
So, it’s all eyes on you
Until the day you call me home

Singing oh Lord, keep me in the moment
Help me live with my eyes wide open
‘Cause I don’t wanna miss what you have for me
(I don’t wanna miss, I don’t wanna miss)
Singing oh Lord, show me what matters
Throw away what I’m chasing after
‘Cause I don’t wanna miss what you have for me

Keep me in the moment
Oh, keep me in the moment
Keep me in the moment
‘Cause I don’t wanna miss what you have for me

Keep me in the moment (Keep me in the moment)
Oh, keep me in the moment (Keep me in the moment)
Keep me in the moment
‘Cause I don’t wanna miss what you have for me (What you have for me)

Source: Musixmatch

Songwriters: Matthew West / Jordan Sapp / Jeremy Camp

Dear God, I guess I have a mixture of emotions processing through right now. I’ve traveled to help some loved ones out. They are having some physical challenges, and I am helping them get packed up and moved home. While I’m here, there is that typical mixture of emotions, as I said before, that you experience when you have a lot of history with people. Of course, there is love, which is the foundation. But then you cannot help but bump up against the scars every once in a while. Past hurts. Current hurts. They are all part of this experience as well as the job at hand—to help, love, and encourage.

So why this song today? I’ve done it before. I’ve prayed to you about the lyrics before. But like a piece of scripture that I’ve journaled on multiple times and almost always gotten something different out of it, so is this song special and meaningful.

It’s funny because I don’t like the actual music video to this song. I intentionally chose the lyrics video so that their interpretation of the song in music video form doesn’t taint what I’m thinking here. The music video I don’t like focuses on the idea of enjoying each moment with your family and such and savoring them. That’s all good and fine, but the song, for me, is much deeper than that.

It reminds me of the 15th letter in Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis. In the 15th letter, the demon Screwtape tells his apprentice nephew demon Wormwood that one of the ways to torment his human “patient” is to keep him, essentially, out of the moment. Make him think about the past and his hurts and resentments. Make him think about the future and what he thinks he’ll dread or what he’s anticipating that will be better than today is. But don’t let him be solely in the current moment because the current moment is the only place in time that touches eternity and you, God (referred to by Screwtape as “The Enemy”). The moment is where I find you.

Father, as I go through this entire day, thank you for this reminder to find you in each moment. In this moment, when I am sitting in bed and typing this. In the next moment, when I get up and do what’s next. In each moment, keep me completely in your presence. Break me, melt me, mold me, fill me. Love through me. Bless through me. Heal me and heal through me. Forgive me. Help me to forgive. Lead me not into temptation and deliver me from Satan’s plans. You are my great God, and I have nothing without you.

I pray all of this through the grace and authority of what Jesus did for me and the world,

Amen