Loneliness is the human condition.
Not the condition of being alone. We all find ourselves in different levels of being alone. Some of us like that more than others- it’s called introversion, I hear. But have you ever felt your loneliness more at a party? Felt more lonely in a crowd? Loneliness. I think loneliness is the human condition because ultimately it represents our separation as creatures from our Creator. We are relational beings, made in Gods image to be like him. He is a relational God - therefore we are relational people. And our relational nature was made by him to be finally and fully realized and satisfied in Him. Sin separates. Loneliness is the human condition because sin is the human condition, and sin separates. Sin separates us from our Creator. If my thoughts were left here, I could never rise from my depression. But God. Those two simple words so frequently found in the New Testament are what give hope to my loneliness. But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus... but now in Christ Jesus you who formerly were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. For He Himself is our peace, who made both groups into one and broke down the barrier of the dividing wall, by abolishing in His flesh the enmity, which is the Law of commandments contained in ordinances, so that in Himself He might make the two into one new man, thus establishing peace, and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, by it having put to death the enmity. Ephesians 2:4-6, 13-16 Find hope tonight, my friend, in your loneliness, because Jesus is near to those whose hope is in Him!
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