I hate to admit it; but, I enjoy being alone most times. This is not a good trait for one who ministers to people. It is hard to minister to these people from seclusion. You may recall that I did a short series on blog posts on Jesus’ ministry of being alone. It was a good series and it turned out a pretty good sermon (even if I do say so myself) based upon the feedback from those who “endured sound doctrine”.
The devil is good at making us “feel” alone. He knows if he can cause us to feel alone we will make bad decisions based upon feeling alone. This is not one hundred percent of the time; but, it is unfortunately true a lot of the time.
There is nothing that makes a person who is experiencing a dark time in their life to feel even more alone than to look around and think you are alone. The Psalmist put it this way in Psalm 69:20, “Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.”
There is something here that the writer of the Psalm has not mentioned and we often forget in dark times. He nor we considered the truth of the latter part of Hebrews 13:5, “… I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.”
So, the truth is that no matter how dark the time or trial you are experiencing you are never alone as one of God’s children.
So, how are you doing?