PSALM 68:4-6
One TV talk show host claims that loneliness is the greatest problem in our society – not poverty, not homelessness, not drugs, not crime, but just plain loneliness, that achy feeling of not being connected closely to someone.
Loneliness is what we feel when we are isolated from others. Loneliness often has less to do with others’ physical absence and more to do with feeling disconnected, alienated, or misunderstood by them. In fact, these are far more painful than mere absence, because we feel the isolation of being despised and rejected.
This is precisely how Isaiah prophetically described Jesus: “He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief” (Isaiah 53:3). Given who Jesus was, this experience would have begun decades before His public ministry even began. Which means Jesus is able to sympathize with our loneliness far more than we might have previously thought. (Hebrews 4:15)
For the lonely person, the Bible holds promises of the deepest and richest kind of fellowship – fellowship with God. Especially when we accept Jesus into our lives – 2 Corinthians 6:18.
