Monday, August 15, 2011

Thinking about Loneliness

No I am not feeling particular lonely.  I think today has just been too busy to even think about how I feel.  But someone dear brought it up and it got me thinking.  These days we are so busy with life and we fill our time with anything and everything. Yet so many are so lonely.  Ever been in a crowded place and maybe even among those considered friends and realize that you are so completely lonely.  It is such a devastating feeling. I admit that I have been guilty.  I have even been with my family and realized how completely alone I am.  Yuck. Why?  

I wish I even thought this answer was simple. I really don't think so.  On one hand, it very possibly is a lack of a true relationship with Jesus. The Bible says, " If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.  If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me." (Psalm 139:8-10) 

Do you hear that? Wherever we go He is there!  Not only that, but nothing can separate us from Him. "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerers through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." (Romans 8:35-39) 

If you know Him and you still feel lonely. . . take time to dwell in Him.  When He knows you are humbly before Him then He will wrap Himself around you.  In that moment, there will be no loneliness.  How incredible it is to KNOW beyond KNOWING that the Father of the Universe is with you and not only with you but within you.

Oh Lord, thank you.  Thank you for your love, your friendship, your correction and that I can always count on you. 

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