ABIDE WITH ME

(Matt Maher, David Crowder, Jason Ingram, Matt Redman)

I've always been inspired by hymns. My maternal grandparents were a Baptist preacher and an
organist. Being raised Catholic, it's strange that the first time you start hearing some of these
hymns, there's something in your DNA that resonates. One was a really beautiful hymn, "Abide
with Me." As a believer, even my doubt and disillusionment have to meet Jesus at the cross. I
think in our walk with God we get surprised when we end up right back where we started. In
some ways, that's the Christian life-learning how to die so you can experience resurrection. I
think sometimes the aching we feel is the realization that we will always be restless until we
reach heaven. We have moments where we get glimpses of what that feels like, but there's still a
haunting that happens. That's what inspired this song-reaching a point where somebody's willing
to at least ask Jesus to help them with that disillusionment and that fear.

I have a home, eternal home

But for now I walk this broken world

You walked it first, You know our pain

But You show hope can rise again up from the grave

Abide with me, Abide with me

Dont let me fall, and dont let go

Walk with me and never leave

Ever close, God abide with me

There in the night, Gethsemane

Before the cross, before the nails

Overwhelmed, alone You prayed

You met us in our suffering and bore our shame

Oh love that will not ever let me go

Love that will not ever let me go

You never let me go

Love that will not ever let me go

Oh You never let us go

And up ahead, eternity

Well weep no more, well sing for joy, abide with me

2015 Sony/ATV Tree Publishing / I Am A Pilgrim Songs (BMI) / David Crowder designee /
Sony/ATV Timber Publishing / Open Hands Music (SESAC) / Matt Redman designee