Loneliness is endemic to the human heart. It is a terrain so vast, so varied, at times so treacherous, that it cannot be measured or charted or reached.
Yet…
It will be eradicated with the gentle touch of a hand; it will be emptied and filled in the amount of time it takes to wipe away a tear. (Revelation 21:1-4) It will be ushered out like an uninvited stranger to a wedding feast. It will be heard as the last word of the prologue to your favorite story, the kind you never wanted to end.
Then…
All the deepest, truest longings of your heart that you knew and never knew were there will be fulfilled. Your heart will be satisfied. Not satisfied like your stomach is after dinner yet only to be hungry again, but satisfied like your heart is when sitting with the one you love yet never growing tired or bored of them.
Home…
But not yet…
Loneliness is still present in our heart – a haunting of our separation from the God who created us, an inkling of our lost relationship with the God who loves us – but there need not be only loneliness nor mostly loneliness.
Jesus…
“My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” (Matthew 27:47). Jesus suffered the unimaginable horror of total and complete separation from God and gave up the unspeakable joy of full and glorious relationship with God. He was truly lonely and truly all alone. Sin, our sin, made it necessary to be so.
“For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God” (1 Peter 3:18).
And for this reason you don’t have to be all alone in your loneliness.
By faith in Jesus we are with God and God is with us: “I am with you always, to the end of the age.” (Matthew 28:20)
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