Real friendship rocks! Upward, outward, yep.
Sadly, I've discovered many married people who are not friends. They're not distant or even close friends involved in the most intimate of all horizontal relationships. They're sadly not friends at all. Tragically, long not at all friends. It doesn't have to be or stay that way. Repent please. Go to God with this.
I've discovered many married people who are very lonely, and even more who live together that way. My grandfather, John F. Beck, once told me he drank too much cuz he was lonely inside.. yes, while married to my grandmother. He then told me how he prayed and overcame gettin' together with the founding leaders of AA.
It was my classy born again grandmother who taught me how to love God and daily pray. You can pray, find the ultimate satisfying Solution and and ditch problems too.
So many young and older people suffer with the feeling of being lonely today, but listen.. loneliness is ultimately a choice. Being alone isn’t always, but the former indeed is. Who feels that today?
Going out to act friendly is also a choice. So many wrong places to go feeling like this (ie, a bar, a night club, a cult group), but there are some healthy places to go. First go to the One who understands you most, who can handle you speaking frankly.
Students far away at college can feel it.
Singles can be lonely.
Widows and widowers can also be.
Those retired can feel forgotten or left all alone too much. There are more senior people than ever before. Many feel forgotten, no longer needed, purposeless.
Married people can be too.
People pass away, they divorce, they move away, they break up, they are promoted to a position in a different city or location. Who doesn’t hate rejection.
So many people really hate returning to an empty dark house or apartment.
So many people drink ..much or do prescribed or illicit drugs because of this gnawing feeling.
Can Christians experience loneliness? The Bible contains many stories of godly people who suffered with it. Fortunately, Scripture also offers us truths to help us escape it.
Jeremiah felt lonely -- the weeping prophet. See Lamentations (a collection of funeral poems). King David also felt lonely. See Psalm 142:4. The Apostle Paul felt lonely sometimes. See what he wrote in 2 Timothy. Let’s keep it all in perspective okay.
Hey, it’s never wrong to feel lonely, but it’s not smart to let it move in and take over our life. God can help you. We are called upon to be examples of the faith. Hear God speak to your heart. His word is His will and He can illuminate it in your human spirit.. yes, to you personally.
Don’t deny you feel this way. Recognize it, acknowledge it, and then accept God’s provision for it.. I mean for this vacant empty space in you.
God Has Not Forgotten You Believer.
He sticks closer than a brother. He will never leave you or forsake you.
After the past period of time, these Covid and Delta Virus years, we are all painfully familiar with the loneliness of spending whole days—even weeks—without leaving the house.
When we go through difficult times, enduring it alone makes it all the more painful. We begin to feel disconnected. Isolated. Seemingly invisible. While we may feel alone, but we never are alone. God is there for you -- He has not forgotten us!
”I cry aloud with my voice to the Lord;
I make supplication with my voice to the Lord.
I pour out my complaint before Him;
I declare my trouble before Him.When my spirit was overwhelmed and weak within me wrapped in darkness,
You knew my path.
In the way where I walk
They have hidden a trap for me.
Look to the right [the point of attack] and see;
For there is no one who has regard for me [to act in my favor].
Escape has failed me and I have nowhere to run;
No one cares about my life.I cried out to You, O Lord;
I said, “You are my refuge,
My portion in the land of the living.
“Give attention to my cry,
For I am brought very low;
Rescue me from my persecutors,
For they are stronger than I.
“Bring my soul out of prison (adversity),
So that I may give thanks and praise Your name;
The righteous will surround me [in triumph],
For You will look after me.” David, Psalm 142:4 amp.
Where does that concept of a “God-shaped hole” originate?
You know the idea.. that inside each of us is a "God-shaped hole"--a place inside of our hearts that only God can fill. If we try to put anything else in there, it won't fit (meaning, it won't fill the need we each can feel, can have inside of our heart, mind and soul).
Yeah, where does this concept even come from?
“There is a God-shaped vacuum in the heart of each man which cannot be satisfied by any created thing but only by God the Creator, made know through Jesus Christ.” ~ Blaise Pascal
It is a craving to be filled, and God can comfort and fill you better than any others. Ask.
It’s a choice - staying lonely. Yes, ongoing loneliness is. God has given us His Son (we can have Him living big on the inside of us, he will help and lead me). We pain from time to time, but we also have time for praying to the Father in faith. We have believers in healthy local church. Yea, He has given you real saints (saved sinners who have been born again.. seeking to grow) and his word. We come together for mutual worship, encouragement and help. Turn and trust Jesus. Come to Christ as you are today.
"A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother." Proverbs 18:24
King David emerged from his prison, from his dark cave into victory. Listen, he not only told us how he felt in his emotions, he gave us the solution.
It’s so easy to become lonely, down and discouraged when we focus on our problems. The ultimate solution? Focus on Jesus and God the Father’s ability to help you also overcome the problems.
Remember Ann Frank, she chose to overcome loneliness. You can too, and be used to help other lonely people.
Corrie Ten Boom overcame this in a Nazi concentration camp. God was and is her best friend and really used her around the world. She went to my church in Costa Mesa as she also traveled the globe.
God is in those hard and super hard experiences with you, believer, and He goes through them all with you. No pit is so deep that His love doesn’t run deep still.
“When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; And through the rivers, they will not overwhelm you. When you walk through fire, you will not be scorched, Nor will the flame burn you." Isaiah 43:2 amp
I like times of being alone with Him, but I get with God’s people often. Fish4souls.org
