Stand Up

Jhn 14:18"I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you.
Jhn 14:19"A little while longer and the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me. Because I live, you will live also.
Jhn 14:20"At that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you.
Jhn 14:21"He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him."

Loneliness is not something anyone should take lightly. In fact I think it's something that should be taken very seriously and rooted out whenever it's found.Relationship, I think that is the most central desire of any human being, more than food, more than sex. The desire to know that not that somebody loves you or all of those wonderful things but to know you are never alone.There is a time for solitude, that is certain. But there is one time God looked down and said, "It's not good.'" And that was when he saw Adam sitting there all alone. He didn't look down and say "He's broke," but it wasn't good to be alone.

But here is the rub. We want, we want and we need other people in our lives and sometimes we want those people so badly that we lay everything about ourselves on an alter built on longing to hear someone say I like you or a love you.And what's worse is so many time we scream out at the one who loves us most that he doesn't love us at all because we can't see his love. But there is a promise we must teach ourselves to cling to, a promise that will pull us out of any depression and make clear any situation no matter how dimly lit.You see people all around you will tell you to go find yourself. Go be your own person, because only when you know you are complete will you ever know how to be with other people. BULL SHIT, I can think of no lonelier or pathetic individual than the one who is completly satisfied with their own company.

Christ told us he would not leave us as orphans. He said he would be our guide, he would be the friend that sticks closer than a brother. Well let's start taking him at his word. Let's start saying Lord I'm not lonely because I know you are with me. I am in you and you are in me and you are in the Father. This is not some new age technique of finding the god within you. No this is taking the savious at his word that when you believe in him he comes and makes a home with you, no matter what state you are in.Christ said He who seeks his life to find it will lose it, but he who loses his life for my sake and the gospel will find it. Now where in there do you see anything about finding yourself and everything being alright?Lose yourself in Him and let him give you the desires of your heart, but don't take my word for it read PSALM 37. He tells you if you delight yourself in him he will give you the desires of your heart.

So stop looking for yourself and what you want, He wants to give it to you.Now don't be lonely he says I won't leave you as orphans, believe him. An orphan doesn't know where he came from or why he came about at all, so stop acting like you are all alone. Take the hand that is reaching to guide you. Stop looking so hard for yourself and look up to all you can and want to be.Your heart wants a relationship that will never end. SO let it have it. The old hymn still rings true, turn your eyes upon Jesus and the things of earth will grow strangely dim. He will give you yourself and show you just who you are and who you are made to be, not just now, but in every time and circumstance you can imagine.