In Times of Loneliness
We all look upon loneliness
as a very terrifying thought. There is
counselling a friend who will work through it with you. Here’s a kicker,
you stand in the middle of your party, with all your friends & family all
about you. Yet you can’t shake off the feeling of loneliness there.
We are creatures that crave
companionship, are these yearnings of all our Human desires, yet they are the
most painful.
Heb 1 9 “. .You have loved righteousness and hated
lawlessness; Therefore God, Your God, has
anointed You
With the oil of gladness more than Your companions. .”
With the oil of gladness more than Your companions. .”
When our
chips are down and we feel that the whole World is against us, it can be hard
to see where the hope going to come from. Just as our Lord Jesus must have felt
when He spent 40 days & nights alone in the wilderness, when His metal was
pushed to breaking point and back.
His very
greatness of character made it impossible to have, let alone form,
companionship's in the World. We do know to whom He turned to though for solace
and comfort, our Heavenly Farther God.
When
Jesus chose to go up the mountain ‘alone’, it was because by going up ‘alone’,
as this was so He could talk to His Heavenly Father alone, face to face without
interruptions. In His darkest hour He said that though left alone to Human
companionship's, He was not alone, because His Father was always with Him.
I have
been told on many occasions, to many if you ask me, that different ones have
been with Family & friends, but have felt so alone. Some have had to argue
they were with them; such was their invisibleness they were to the others. You
can understand them feeling so alone. The comfort of our Lords heart in His
loneliness is for us to, if we walk in His footsteps. But now we to have the
blessed companionship that will fill the emptiness that is our loneliness.
“In a certain sense all life is lonely”
Even with
sympathetic-companionship, all about us there is an inner-life within each one
of our lives that we are altogether alone. In which we must make our own
choices and decisions, where we need to face our own questions, answering them
alone.
Blessed are they who, in this aloneness can
say . . . “yet I am not alone, because the Father
is with me” (John 16; 32 ). . .Gods is the only true friendship that can really meet
all our souls deepest needs and cravings. Over this coming month you and
someone you know will have need to say the following when you wake and when you
go to sleep, thus the last thing your eyes see. . .
“We shall never be
alone when you have
Christ in your
life”
. . .If you are alone saying this aloud then substitute We
& You with I, and replace Your with My, so it should now read. . .
“I shall never be
alone when I have
Christ in my life”
. . .thus making not only more personal, but it now becomes
more powerful.
When all others fail
around you, and they will, He will always stand by your side. Over time faces
will come and go, He will shine out, showering you with His sweet love, whilst
shining His light upon you. Loneliness knows no age confines; youth can seem to
on lookers as light hearted, and sadly often a young person feels alone amid
such friendships.
Prov 18 24 “. .A man who has friends must himself be friendly,
but there is a
friend who sticks closer than a brother. .”
As a Youth soul awakens, a thousand x a
thousand, questions form and need answered, Now. They are also confronted by a
thousand paths of which they must choose one to walk down. Everything is still
very much mysterious… There are perils on all sides … All life is a new …
Choices must be made … Lessons must learned.
All is
new, and every step is hard … “yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me” … This loneliness of inexperience, comes when a young soul is
taking it’s earliest steps in life are one the most painful & trying of all
it’s life. But when our Lord Jesus walks alongside the young person in their inexperience
all will be well.
Many of life’s
questions would normally be answered by a loving parent. In a Christian home,
they would get spiritual guidance through life’s troubles and hard times. There
is many-a-young person who find themselves, homeless. Thus they don’t have that
personal guidance and love. It is impossible to measure how high the value is and
helpfulness of those who freely and willingly give up their time for them.
Bitter is indeed, is
the sense of loneliness when a young person, who was used to a mothers love, for
whatever the reason, they are now away from the Mother and miss henceforth the
blessings that have been so prevalent till now. Nothing Earthly will compensate
for the loss. Other Human friendships may be sweet but, will not get back home
with all its shelter & love. Its shelter couple with … Affection … Trust … Love
… Guidance … and its soothing serenity.
With Christ
out Lord, who is unseen, yet loved made real to the heart by love and faith. Even
a room in a boarding house may become sanctuary like a home, a shelter of
divine love. “yet I am not
alone, because the Father is with me”
Isaiah 8 14 “. .He will be as a sanctuary. .”
Yesterday it was 1980, I was going to be this hot photographer. Then, I
blinked and it was 2016. So many years in the wilderness lost.
Old age is
just an Illustration
Illustration has now become a mirror old life’s achievements and a waste
land of missed opportunities. Then come’s a beautiful and a wonderful cleansing
that is Christ our Lord.
Blessed is that young person who every … perplexity every mystery …
every doubt … every hunger, home is the place of loves sanctuary, and where
sympathy can be found, also to be found is council & true guidance. Home
will always have heart felt companionship. For many home is the one true place
where we are sure of each other and feel we can let our guide down.
Everyone who is homeless has the same cravings like … longing to belong …
hungers for a ‘normal’ family. More so said of the youth where in a ‘normal’
home, true homes of their yearnings are met. Those whose home has all these
comforts and blessings take for granted these blessed gifts, or, till at least
they are gone.
It’s a sad statement …. “Life’s loneliness means far less to them while home shields them and
blesses the companionship, and its sweet patient .. Wise .. Helpful ... Nourishing
love. We all know or have heard this saying … But for the grace of God go I … there is nothing sadder to than a youth, or
anyone, homeless, because the sanctuary of home has been lost.
Now the old man stands alone, but now the streets are full of homeless. Where
have all the faces of 30 – 40 years ago? It is the young faces that fill houses,
the streets, and the churches. So many of the older folk are lonely because their
friends are gone, yet in Christ even the older generation can say … “yet I am not alone”
Blessed is that life
which, when our friends are taken away, they have the friendship of Christ,
filling and satisfying and can say … “yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me” (John
16 32)
Whilst doing this
study, it has led to reading books I may have never had. This piece below is
from an old book how to not only become a better person, but also a better
Christian called ‘ ‘
“When we are faced
with our time to go
It can be the most
daunting & scariest,
A journey we must
face alone, of cause
I’m talking of
death.”
There comes a time
we all must face this journey. Humans love can’t go beyond the start, but we
need not be alone, even to that deepest of all loneliness for we Christ waiting
to hold our hand, so we can say with confidence …
John 16 32
“yet I am not alone, because
the Father is
with me”
