how do you deal with loneliness?
these are the things that you do.
normally we do the wrong things.
people will try all kinds of things to overcome their loneliness. some people will try being a workaholic. they think if they stay busy they’ll overcome
their loneliness. they’ll work and then
fall in bed late at night totally fatigued.
they get up in the morning and they’re still lonely. some people think they’ll cure their
loneliness through things, materialism.
they surround their life with beautiful objects – nice clothes, nice
cars, nice art objects, a beautiful home,
but you cannot purchase happiness. it doesn’t last.
i could put you on a desert island and tell you that you could have every single thing that you want – anything. except people. how long would you be happy? not very long. why do you think solitary confinement is the most devastating form of punishment. we were made for each other. some people will try to overcome their loneliness by having an affair. some people get drunk, take drugs, go to bars. some people do nothing. they just sit around and have a pity party and say, “poor me!” loneliness will paralyze you if you let it.
what is it that’s causing loneliness in your life? maybe it’s a transition. you’ve been going through so much change in the last few weeks or months or years – a new job, a new location, a new family, something causing the loneliness. maybe it’s a separation. JESUS said, I will never leave you nor forsake you. maybe it’s opposition. you say, “everybody’s against me. at work they’re stabbing me in the back. everybody’s conspiring against me.” maybe it’s rejection. JESUS said, whoever comes to me, I will never cast out.
a lot of our loneliness is really a spiritual vacuum. we have a GOD shaped vacuum in our lives and when we try to fill it with anything else besides GOD it’s like filling a round hole with a square peg. it doesn’t fit! but when you invite CHRIST into your life and ask HIS SPIRIT to fill you, HE puts HIS presence in you, a presence that will never, never leave you. some of you may be thinking, “nobody loves me. nobody cares for me. nobody even knows i exist.” i know somebody who does. HIS name is JESUS CHRIST.
just a thought from the front porch…
i could put you on a desert island and tell you that you could have every single thing that you want – anything. except people. how long would you be happy? not very long. why do you think solitary confinement is the most devastating form of punishment. we were made for each other. some people will try to overcome their loneliness by having an affair. some people get drunk, take drugs, go to bars. some people do nothing. they just sit around and have a pity party and say, “poor me!” loneliness will paralyze you if you let it.
what is it that’s causing loneliness in your life? maybe it’s a transition. you’ve been going through so much change in the last few weeks or months or years – a new job, a new location, a new family, something causing the loneliness. maybe it’s a separation. JESUS said, I will never leave you nor forsake you. maybe it’s opposition. you say, “everybody’s against me. at work they’re stabbing me in the back. everybody’s conspiring against me.” maybe it’s rejection. JESUS said, whoever comes to me, I will never cast out.
a lot of our loneliness is really a spiritual vacuum. we have a GOD shaped vacuum in our lives and when we try to fill it with anything else besides GOD it’s like filling a round hole with a square peg. it doesn’t fit! but when you invite CHRIST into your life and ask HIS SPIRIT to fill you, HE puts HIS presence in you, a presence that will never, never leave you. some of you may be thinking, “nobody loves me. nobody cares for me. nobody even knows i exist.” i know somebody who does. HIS name is JESUS CHRIST.
just a thought from the front porch…
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