LONELINESS

Matthew 28:20 (AMP)
Teaching them to observe everything that I have commanded you, and behold, I am with you all the days (perpetually, uniformly, and on every occasion), to the [very] close and consummation of the age. Amen (so let it be).

Loneliness is a feeling of depression resulting from being alone. The state of solitude or seclusion from the normal practice of society.
The dictionary meaning of loneliness is the emotional feeling of sadness and dejection, low-spirited or depressed due to a lack of companionship or separation from others. Loneliness is the feeling of being left out, rejected, and unwanted. It is a feeling of being removed and cut off from others, whether real or imagined.
You could be in a roomful of people and still feel lonely, you feel lonely in relationships and even in most marriages, a feeling of separation that causes desolation.
It appears that the more technology advances, the more loneliness grips the society and has become a crippling illness today, but the bible tells us God wants everyone to have joy and fulfilment even when we are experiencing sadness and loneliness! That’s difficult when you feel lonely, and it seems that no one cares.
God designed and created us to desire and need companionship, friendship, and fellowship because the right friends help in times of loneliness according to Ecclesiastes 4:9-12.
God designed companionship and friendship to bring us great fulfilment in loving others. To feel alone and unloved hurts terribly.
Loneliness was first mentioned in Genesis 2:18 and we see the Lord quickly resolve it. God’s plan was not for anyone to be alone and so He set up an institution to support that doctrine.
Loneliness is a condition that we must deal with because continuing in a state of loneliness leads to more complex problems.
2 Corinthians 5:18-21 tells us we are reconciled through Jesus, the friend who laid His life for us, when you are in Him, He alleviates the loneliness.
Through His word and His Spirit’s intervention in our lives, we can overcome loneliness. God often direct us to people who can help us overcome loneliness through trusted friends and church families.
Even more, in Christ, we have become part of a new spiritual family that is one hundred times larger than any natural family.
Believers are not exempt from the pain of loneliness as David was well-acquainted with, and his honest cries to God are recorded through the Psalms especially Psalm 25:16-21, revealing David’s longing to be connected to God and his reliance upon that relationship: we should also try to rely on the Lord and His promises to continually be with us no matter where we find ourselves.
Ministers often feel the pain of rejection and loneliness, like the prophet Jeremiah, whom the Lord told not to marry. He had few friends, was referred to as the “weeping prophet,” probably due to the pain of loneliness and rejection. Jeremiah chapter 15 captures the prophet speaking to God about his loneliness, unending pain, and suffering. Despite his pain, he trusted the Lord and followed God’s calling for his life.
Jesus experienced loneliness. On the cross, He cried out, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” in Mark 15:34. And in Isaiah 53:3, a prophecy about Jesus, we read, “He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Jesus can empathize with the pain of loneliness because he experienced it, so, look up to Him if you’re there and reach out to someone who can support you through it.
Shalom

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