I'm Alone

I’m Alone.

Take a look at those two simple words and many images will come to mind. It could be the widow sitting in their favorite restaurant with silent tears grieving that he’ll never again share a meal with her. Even sadder it could be the divorcee’ thinking the same thoughts. It could be the shy awkward child on the playground surrounding by laughing children and none stop to ask her to play. It could be the popular teenage homecoming queen surrounding by her adoring friends and admirers nursing a cold heart that is never satisfied. It could be the young mother of four small children clamoring for her attention, leaving her no energy or enthusiasm for anything or anyone else in life. Or it could be the bride on her honeymoon with the man of her dreams but no purpose for her life wondering if this is all there is.

No matter what the description, we all find ourselves in circumstances which bring out the pang of loneliness.

Psalm 25:16–18 (NASB95)

¹⁶ “Turn to me and be gracious to me, For I am lonely and afflicted. ¹⁷ The troubles of my heart are enlarged; Bring me out of my distresses. ¹⁸ Look upon my affliction and my trouble, And forgive all my sins.”

King David understood far greater than many of us just how piercing the aloneness can be. He wrote volumes of Psalms that describe the many times he found himself alone, betrayed and alienated, facing life’s gravest moments away from the support of those who should have loved him.

God tells us that we were not designed to be alone.  

Genesis 2:18 (NASB95)

¹⁸ Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him.”

Moses, the genius leader of the children of Israel, raised and educated with Egyptian royalty, cried out to God that by himself, he couldn’t handle the problems of 2 million Israelites. God’s answer was not to hang tough, muscle through and stop whining. Instead look at how those prayers were answered.

Numbers 11:17 (NASB95)

¹⁷ “Then I will come down and speak with you there, and I will take of the Spirit who is upon you, and will put Him upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, so that you will not bear it all alone.

Each time one of His children cry out to him that their burdens are too great to bear alone, God hears their cries and answers their prayers.

So if you’re facing a time of being alone, facing life with no human support, cry out to your heavenly Father.  He hears the cries of your heart and wants to be your shelter in the storm. 

Are you alone, lost and don’t know where your salvation will come from? God is waiting to hear from you. Jesus Christ wants to be your Savior and your help.

Luke 19:10 (NASB95)

¹⁰ “For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.”

The truth for all is that we were created to first have a relationship with God and then with each other. Our loneliness can never be truly solved unless God alone fills that void. It is our lost state that separates us from Him.

 John 8:32 (NASB95)

³² and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

John 14:6 (NASB95)

⁶ Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.

Acts 16:31 (NASB95)

³¹ They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”

So the starting place for the lonely one is to cry out to God, believe that Jesus Christ, His only Son, paid the penalty for our sinfulness, and that through faith in Christ, we are restored to a right relationship with God.

Once you have a relationship with God, seek to know Him better.  Get a Bible and find a church family.  You were not created to be alone, separated from God and others.  He’s the starting place for healing the heart that is broken in all of us.

Psalm 4:8 (NASB95)

⁸ In peace I will both lie down and sleep, For You alone, O Lord, make me to dwell in safety.