Loneliness

Matthew 6:11 

"Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us."

​What do you do when you feel lonely?

God has you in a season where you feel as though no one is there and no one understands. 

Your parents, your friends, and no one else knows the emotions you’re experiencing. 

Although you may have people you can call and talk to, you still feel so alone.

Trauma from the past haunts you. 

You pray to God for comfort.

You don’t want to hold grudges, but the pain feels unbearable.

So decide to pull the knife out your back that someone has stabbed you with several times.

That knife represents the people that have hurt you in the past.

While you are pulling out the knife you’re inflicting pain on yourself.

However, you realize that you have to address those things and experience pain once again in order to heal.

What do you do when you feel lonely?

Is it asking too much to do the work to address the loneliness?

Is it asking too much to address the pain?

What about the ones you have to love and be there for who have continuously inflicted pain into your life?

How can you possibly have strength to be there for those people?

God has immeasurable strength that he will give you, that you will never be able to understand.

When you are there for those people, God will hold a mirror in front of those people so they can see themselves in it. 

The fact that you chose to forgive them will hurt them more than anything, for hate will not cast out hate. 

A person cannot see their wrong doings if you treat them the way they treated you. 

So what do you do when you feel lonely?

Is it too much for you to forgive others, in the same way that our heavenly father forgave you?

Are you much better or more perfect than the ones who you need to forgive?

Did your heavenly father not already make up for the pain that was caused? 

If not, do you not believe he is capable of making up for every unfair situation you ever experienced?

So I ask, what do you do when you feel lonely?

I cry out to our heavenly father, the one who’s always there in my time of loneliness.