Title: Solitude and Freedom
solitude and freedom
2005-11-16
Psalm 68 is David's psalm, and it records David's recollection of the grace he received from God and about God who comforts the lonely. The reason we are miserable is that we do not know how to do good in our times of loneliness. Solitude can be divided into holy solitude and worldly solitude, but this distinction does not mean that the fundamental kinds of solitude are different. Solitude is the state of being loved or the expectation of being loved is broken. All love found in man is dependent love. This is the love God gave to man at creation. Human love is modeled after the love that communicated in the Holy Trinity, but the love of the Holy Trinity is independent and perfect love, which is different from human love.
Man was created by God to be perfect, but not infinitely perfect. Thus, he made love dependent on God, and love in which humans depend on each other. Adam was created to be a perfect man, but it did not look good to God that he loved and not depended on anyone else. Instead of making Eve out of separate clay to be dependent on each other, He created Eve from Adam's rib so that woman could receive the love and protection of man. Because he was created with his own bones and flesh, his mate could be so beautiful. Even so, we must not break the order by loving man more than we love God.
Loneliness and loneliness are scarier than the fear of death. This solitude itself is a neutral emotion. Depending on what is filled in here, it is either holy solitude or worldly solitude. Adolescence and menopause are the times when these times suddenly come. Loneliness also floods in when you feel loved and yet not loved, or when you feel rejected. Even people with deep faith can taste the empty solitude.
Those who live in poverty try to solve the loneliness in the wrong way in times of loneliness. In other words, they tend to indulge themselves in extreme pleasure, following the tendency to intensely stimulate themselves. However, when there comes a time when such a stimulus cannot act as a stimulus, you can experience a surge of loneliness.
Pay special attention to times in your life when moral responsibility is loose. There are many instances of people who can't handle their loneliness and startle people around them by doing something really surprising and evil. Ultimately, it is important to enjoy God, and in real life, it is important to live with gratitude, finding joy and reward while fellowshipping with people and helping and receiving them.
How grateful it is that we believers have members and the church to help and love each other. Even if there is pain in the relationship with the person you hang out with, you can be thankful by obeying the will of the Lord who achieves the maturity of faith through pain. The more I suffer, the more humble I am to think about how I myself have hurt God. Just as when one part of the body hurts, the whole body works together to heal the pain, so instead of complaining that one member in the church suffers because it hurts, it should be regarded as a pain in one part of the body and endured.
In the text, the poet confesses that God is a God who comforts the lonely. The poet was a person who knew loneliness because he did not receive love from his family. Thus, when David was in trouble, his comrades were the weak who suffered loneliness. David was a shepherd, and he embraced them and loved them.
A deer in the mating season experiences intense thirst while wandering to mate. The deer, desperately looking for water, collapses under the scorching sun and dies. Like a deer looking for water, if you earnestly seek God when you are lonely, this loneliness is rather useful. Let go of the expectations of worldly desires and gaze upon God. Gaze upon God is faith.
Love is the tendency to be constantly fixed on one thing. Those who look to God in their loneliness experience God's comfort through such looking. God does not leave those who long for Him and depend on Him in solitude, but rather “accelerate” them as members of His close family.
If you gaze at God when you are lonely, you can draw closer to God. Prayer and the Word exert a powerful force in a focused mind. The time when you are not alone is not when you receive the love of the world, but when you receive the love of God. By receiving the fullness of God's love, we can spread that love to our neighbors and the world. Be grateful for the environment in which to serve. Gratitude takes us from loneliness to God. Therefore, I hope that you will become God's family and live in close love. 2005-11-16