Monday, July 16, 2012

Hope in Loneliness

"... I will never leave you and I will never forsake you" - Hebrews 13:5.
Have you ever felt as if I'm standing alone? You feel isolated, even if you are surrounded by many people? There is a void in your heart, as if there is something missing?
The good news is that feeling of loneliness is not inevitable, and it's not the end of everything. God can help you through your loneliness feelings. We do not need to be controlled by our feelings, but by God's word is reliable.
Jesus knew loneliness you feel. He often felt left alone when he lived on earth. He would miss the human touch when no one is thinking of his needs. Even his family was sometimes considered him strange. And when he needed his friends around him, even to his followers-12 most setiapun not always accompany him.
Moses must have felt very lonely, when living in the wilderness for forty years, with only accompanied by his sheep. But God uses those times it's lonely to talk to him from a burning bush. Forty years to prepare Moses to lead the Israelites out of Egyptian slavery.
We can thank God because He knows and understands our needs and He cares. Really helped, knowing that He, the Almighty knows and cares about any weaknesses and our need to feel close to someone who understands us. One of us a priceless privilege is knowing that God is near, even when we do not feel His presence.
His eyes are always drawn to us, to protect and care for us. Everything that happens to us, there's meaning. Let us not be dominated by concerns about our feelings of loneliness. Jack Hayford says, "There are people who feel that the 'fly alone' that can bring in abundance rather than loneliness."But how we can, the handle of our lives, we all need other people. That's why God has set the solitude of his preformance spiritual family to help us to grow together and to rebuild. Growth and our healing depends on it." 
However, we are never really alone, though no one sahabatpun near us. We know that God's word is true, and we need to feel the truth, that God is always gracious and merciful, and His peace beyond our understanding. This has been our hope. Feeling lonely in the middle that hit our lives, hope to God to give strength and comfort to our souls.
God says to us, when He said to David concerning himself: "For He protects me in his cabin, at the time of danger; He hid me in hiding in his tent, He drew me to the rock" - Psalm 27 : 5. The statement gives a certain hope for each of us. Promises of protection and care of God is what gives us the ability to keep hope alive in our lives. God of our hope and He never let us down is hopeless to him.