All the Lonely People

“This is for all the lonely people! Where do they all come from?” This is the phrase of the song, “The Lonely People.” Loneliness is an epidemic in our culture especially after the Covid scare and the rise in criminal and fraudulent activity. Mother Teresa of Calcutta also said in her time that loneliness is the leprosy of the modern world. Loneliness has always been man’s issue since he is alienated by sin from God.

Loneliness can lead to many mental health issues as well. How often do we talk to people on the street, that just have a great need to talk to someone and go on and on about everything. Few people take time to minister to these people. The same can be said of many of the elderly.

Many people have accepted loneliness as just part of life and deal with the pain the best they can everyday. People can even be around other people that are friends and relatives and still be lonely. Where do we go for healing? There is one ultimate cure for loneliness. Until we find it and receive it, it will be a pain we carry to the end of life. “But now loneliness is loose upon the landscape. It haunts the penthouse and the rectory, the executive suite and the millionaires’ mansion, as well as the barren apartment, the assembly line, the cocktail bar and the city streets.” (Hearing God, p. 45, Dallas Willard)

There is one ultimate cure for loneliness, not just another distraction. We were created for a love fellowship with God and every person has this longing in their heart that can only be filled with God. Of course, people try to fill it and avoid it with many distractions, but the loneliness remains, if not filled with God.

Friends can come and go and so can all kinds of relationship, but when you have an authentic love relationship with the living God, He will never forsake you. (Hebrews 13:5) The strength of the relationship is in Him. God is the center of man and unless we find our center in Him, we will always be off balance and empty. We must find our center and our center is only found in and through Jesus Christ. There is no other way only illusions.

When we find or identity and center in Christ we have a God, a friend, the one who loves us without merit and the one who is always true to His holy, good and just self. We can count on Him when we can’t count on others, even ourselves. God presence, the confidence of His love and faithfulness deals and the strength of His character are the remedy root of loneliness. God is the remedy to loneliness.

Sometimes we have to stand alone. Only if we have this center will we be able to stand alone with integrity. Many of the prophets in the Old Testament stood alone, but were not alone in God. Noah stood alone, although some of his family joined him. Job stood alone. Jeremiah, Ezekiel and Isaiah and the other prophets stood alone in God’s strength and fellowship. Jesus stood alone and hung alone on the cross even though at a time he felt forsaken, however, his faith in God the Father carried him through to finish what God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit’s greatest event in human history willed.

Worldly Christians who may have not come to authentic repentance and faith and be born from above, may sense loneliness because their focus is primarily on self and circumstances rather than on God. The same can be said of worldly Christians. Only those who are seriously growing in Christ know the beauty of fellowship in Christ. If you love the world, it will only provide emptiness.

All the apostles except John were martyred. Peter when he was going to be crucified on a cross to be martyred, asked to be crucified upside down for, he said he was not worthy to die like his Lord. This is love and this is strength. I want to know this kind of love and strength. This is the strength that Godly Christians walk in.

How do we connect with God? We have to come to true repentance. We must love God more than we love sin and self. Satan is in rebellion against God and sets himself up in competition to God and man follows Satan’s lead. We must be willing to forsake sin and all of Satan’s ways. We must not just be sorry for the consequences of sin, we must feel the grief of offending a holy, loving and just God. Until you come to this point you are not a candidate for the power of God to change you from the inside out. “But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God” (John 1:12; RSV) God sees the heart.

Repentance and faith go together. You must also receive God’s grace and this calls for humility. Many reject the remedy in Christ because of their pride. This pride has its origin in the devil as well. The bottom line is whether you will reject the devil and his ways and become a loving public disciple of Jesus Christ. He will apprentice you in the way.

If you are not yet there, read your Bible everyday and pray and meditate on what you have read. Fight the good fight for Satan will resist you in this endeavor. Why be lonely when God loves you and made the way you are and completes you in Jesus Christ, who took the penalty for your sin on the cross, if you will respond to his invitation to life with repentance and faith and a public stance in faithfulness and loyalty.

The cure for loneliness is a love fellowship with Jesus Christ and daily walking in fellowship and love with Him. There is no other way to fulness of life and no other way to fill the emptiness in all men’s heart without God