ALONE

~Do you ever feel completely alone? Even though you know there's people around you that love you and care about you? Well I'm writing today to tell you that if your Gods child, you are loved today even if, in your human relationships, you are completely alone. ~It's happened to all of us and it's inevitable in this broken world in someway we are all left feeling alone. So what do you do? where do you run? what do you tell yourself? how do you respond when you are left alone? Such aloneness can cut deep and hurt because we were designed to be social. ~Immediately after Adam and Eve disobeyed God, tension erupted in their relationship and it became bad really fast. Cain, the son of Adam and Eve, even murdered his brother in a fit of sibling jealousy. ~In the world that we live in where sin has infected it, wrong infects our relationships. It shatters the community God intended us to live in and leaves many of us alone. ~This aloneness takes many forms such as: friends turn their back's on friends, husbands and wives divorce, neighbors move away, employees get fired, children reject their parents, churches divide, friends and relatives lose contact, old age leaves us lonely, death takes dear ones from us, etc. ~Yes, somewhere in your life, you will be left alone.....But it is in this experience of aloneness that you must remember the gospel of Jesus Christ. Jesus captured the relational beauty of this in his own life when, as he faced death, he said to his disciples- "behold the hour is coming indeed it has come, when you will be scattered each to his own home, and will leave me alone, yet I am not alone for the Father is with me."John 16:32. ~Yes people and circumstances leave you alone. Yet it is impossible for one of God's children to be completely alone because we have a Father in heaven who is always with us and he will not leave us no matter what. Remind yourself today that as God's child no matter how many people have walked out of your life, aloneness is a thing of your past.....:) PSALM 94: 11-22 “The LORD knows people’s thoughts; he knows they are worthless! Joyful are those you discipline, LORD, those you teach with your instructions. You give them relief from troubled times until a pit is dug to capture the wicked. The LORD will not reject his people; he will not abandon his special possession. Judgment will again be founded on justice, and those with virtuous hearts will pursue it. Who will protect me from the wicked? Who will stand up for me against evildoers? Unless the LORD had helped me, I would soon have settled in the silence of the grave. I cried out, “I am slipping!” but your unfailing love, O LORD, supported me. When doubts filled my mind, your comfort gave me renewed hope and cheer. Can unjust leaders claim that God is on their side— leaders whose decrees permit injustice? They gang up against the righteous and condemn the innocent to death. But the LORD is my fortress; my God is the mighty rock where I hide.” ‭‭