Loneliness

Sometimes that specter of dark emptiness slips silently into your house, sits down across from you, and stares deeply into your soul. It fills your life with self doubt and leaves an even larger chasm of cobwebs and shadows. Loneliness has a gloominess that is difficult to overcome. The darkness and deep shadows of loneliness prevail with only occasional sparkles of light. The fleeting flickers come from bright memories that manage to slide through the chinks from the past to mock and to tease. Those thoughts whet the soul making the darkness more severe when that instant of hope flickers out and disappears. The feeling of loneliness returns, like a punch in the gut with a cruel and savage blow. The blow is meant to dishearten and rob the person of all peace, joy, and happiness.

Left without direction, the enemy attacks with an all out assault, tempting on many fronts. Whether the outlet is alcohol, drugs, pornography, or even by tempting people with suicide to escape the pain and the feeling of hopelessness, it’s the bondage that the enemy offers.

I tried to research the word lonely or loneliness in the Bible. It’s not there, but those words cannot be found, instead God says in Hebrews 13;5  “Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.” God also says in Proverbs 18:24 “A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.”

Loneliness is like deep troubled water. It’s murkiness tries to drown out all peace and joy, but God gives a peace and a joy that supersedes all that the enemy would throw at us. Jesus tells us, “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. John 14:27

I was feeling a bit lonely and thinking about what to write as I left the house Tuesday morning when a flock of geese flew northward overhead to their nesting grounds and the thought hit me, why when they fly south calling with the same sound does it cause me to feel sad? And why when the geese wing their way north does it cause me to smile causing me to feel happy? It’s simply God sharing His plan for all and our hope for tomorrow.