Title Overcome Loneliness
Contents
Hymn: 88 chapters (88 chapters) 'My sincere longing'
Meditation: The world we live in is becoming more and more solitary. There is fame and wealth, but people live with a feeling of loneliness. God is well aware of the loneliness of our lives. The God who created Adam did not like it for man to be alone, so he made Eve to help him, so he could live with him.
Confession of Faith: Apostles' Creed
Text: “The Lord stood by me and gave me strength so that the word preached through me might be fully preached and heard by all Gentiles, and I was delivered from the mouth of the lion” (2 Timothy 4:9-17).
First, what makes me lonely? It is when people who have been by my side leave me. Verse 10 is the names of those who were with Paul and left him for various reasons. Loneliness comes when someone leaves me. When you lose your spouse, when a close friend moves away, or when your children move away from home.
The most difficult of all is when the person you loved and trusted leaves you. Paul missed people. So he said to Timothy, “Come quickly to me” (verse 9).
Second, how do we overcome this loneliness? In verse 13, Paul tells Timothy, "Bring books specially written on leather paper." Paul did not want to be sympathetic to others by complaining about his circumstances in prison. Next, Paul overcame loneliness by believing that the Lord was with him. Many people around me have left, but I confess, "The Lord stands by my side and gives me strength." Paul also overcame loneliness by responding to the needs of others. “That the word preached through me may be fully preached, so that all Gentiles may hear it,” he says. The loneliest people in the world are the ones who focus only on their work. The more difficult and lonely you are, the more difficult and harder it is for you to go to your neighbors.
Prayer: Dear God, thank you for being with us in times of loneliness and hardship. I believe that the Lord is with me forever. Please help me to correct my relationship with the Lord and not feel lonely anymore through good relationships. I pray in Jesus name. Amen
Lord's Prayer