Lonely But Never Alone by Karen

What is loneliness? How many descriptions of loneliness can you name? Can you recall ever feeling lonely?

Let me be clear, I’m not talking about being in solitude or merely being by yourself. Often times we are comfortable alone.  Sometimes time spent apart from others is a welcoming opportunity. In fact, embrace those opportunities as God allows them to slow you down to reflect and gather your scattered energies.

I visit with those who are in nursing homes and hospitals.  Some of them feel others don’t really care about them. What about the hordes of men and women behind prison bars, who are persuaded everyone else has long since forgotten they exist and life is moving on like a great train pulling out of a station, but leaving them behind?

No one seems to notice.

In the lonely hours of the night, you wrestle with God and with your feelings of desperation, aloneness, and rejection. Perhaps, a friend or family member deserted you.  Your child or love one has turned against you or they don’t seem to care. Or ironically, you feel equally lonely on a busy street or crowded hallway.

It’s a bitter thing to be lonely, really lonely. Some of us know it all too well. All of us have felt the chill of loneliness haven’t we, whether we admit it openly or not?

When a person is lonely they want to withdraw, sleep, or perhaps escape by drinking or taking drugs to alleviate the pain. But none of these actions or reactions work.

There are depths of loneliness in you which only God can reach. You have struggles you deal with in which no other human can help you. It is during these times if you will listen you will hear Jesus say, “Let not your heart be troubled.. lo, I am with you all the days.”

Have you ever said, “I feel like everyone has deserted me?”  The next time you say that please read theses scriptures:

Psalms 27:10 Even if my Father and Mother abandon me: the Lord will hold me close.

Deuteronomy 31:6 Be strong and courageous being not afraid of them, the Lord your God will go ahead of you He will neither fail you nor forsake you.

He will not force Himself upon you. You can shut the door of your loneliness against Him. You can put Him off as you sometimes do by saying, “I don’t need You.  I can make it alone.”

The cure for loneliness is a commitment in Him.  It’s when you cherish His word and His will that you will experience His nearness.

The question is do YOU really want Him with YOU?

Are YOU willing to open the gates to this Lord of all life and let Him make YOU A loving, caring AND happy person?

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