Title When I'm Alone / John 14:16-18
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Title / When I'm Alone
Text / John 14:16-18
When a person lives in this world, there are times when he feels as if he is left alone in an empty space. Being alone means somehow solitude and loneliness. And it makes me think of loneliness. So people are afraid of being alone.
A hospital conducted a survey on pain among patients.
He said that the most painful time was the afternoon rather than the morning, and the more painful time than that afternoon was the alone night.
Alone time is the most painful time.
So people struggle not to be left alone.
However, no matter how hard you try, there are times when you are left alone in the following three ways in this world.
When left alone from matter
There are a lot of rich people in the world and there are many rich people, but just imagine that all the money throws you away and you can't even get a meal. There is nothing more desperate and humble than the heart of a person who is completely turned away from money.
It is the moment when one is abandoned by material things and left alone when the person is ignored by money.
Money can sometimes lead to a peaceful and relaxed life in some way. That's why people do everything they can to make friends with money.
But there are times when money throws me away.
I don't have a friend who doesn't listen to me like money. If I want to have it, it stays in my pocket for a while and then disappears without a trace. If the pockets are thick, there will be a stomach and there is room. However, the belly formed when the pockets are thick will soon become subdued when the pockets are thin. So people are afraid of being left alone from material things.
When left alone from health
The second is when you are turned away from your health and left alone. Health doesn't last forever. Life is all about getting sick, getting old and dying from time to time, even when the attractiveness and health of the body overflow. There comes a time when even the once successful merchants lose their health and lie down.
When left alone from people
The third time is when you are turned away from people and left alone. There are times in our lives when we are abandoned by people for various reasons. It may be because of a difference of opinion. Sometimes people turn away from people because of their mistakes and mistakes.
The pain of being left alone with people is harder and more difficult than anything else. It is when you are left alone when you hear accusations and ridicule.
In Psalm 22:6, the feelings of those who have been abandoned by people are expressed as follows.
“I am a worm, not a man, but a slander of men and a ridicule of the people.”
The psalmist is complaining that people are not treating themselves as human beings. When they see themselves, they see themselves as bugs and are not treated as human beings.
Hearing such sounds, he expresses confusion about his identity. The phrase "I'm a worm" expresses the confusion of one's identity as they fall into a state of desperation in discouragement and despair.
The most difficult and difficult times are when people are alienated and abandoned.
The problem, however, is that most of these loneliness are complex.
People who don't have money get sick, and to those who are sick, their friends and loved ones also leave. That is why being alone makes it more lonely and difficult.
Job was left alone overnight.
By Satan's temptation, all his beautiful possessions were burned and taken by robbers. His children were buried in a house that collapsed and died overnight. To make matters worse, a malignant tumor developed on his body, leaving his skin rotten and chapped.
He lost his wealth and lost his health.
He was alienated from material and health.
What broke his heart the most at that time was that even his beloved wife did not understand his situation. He was left alone even from his loved ones.
(Job 2:8) And Job was sitting in the ashes, taking a piece of tile and scratching himself.
(Job 2:9) His wife said to him, "Do you still keep your integrity? Curse God and die."
Historically, Socrates' wife is said to be the worst of the bad guys, but I think Job's wife is no less bad.
I can't warmly comfort my husband who got to know him overnight and was even ill. What does this mean?
I can't even scratch my husband who is scratching his body with a piece of tile because he can't stand the itch due to a skin disease, but why don't you go out and curse God and die?
How angry would you be?
From the point of view of Job's wife, how frustrated Job must have been?
What was Job like in this utterly complex, lonely moment?
(Job 2:10) He said, "Your words are like the words of one of the foolish women. If we have received a blessing from God, will we not receive any disaster?" In all these things Job did not sin with his lips.
Through the image of Job, we are teaching the saints what to do when the time of being left alone comes.
① You must not sin.
Job did not sin with his mouth during the complex solitude that came upon him. (Job 2:10) He said, "Your words are like the words of one of the foolish women. If we have received a blessing from God, will we not receive any disaster?" In all these things Job did not sin with his lips.
He said that he did not sin with his lips in any of these things. It means that they did not blame God with their mouths and did not complain. If you sin in the moment of being alone, you miss the opportunity to recover.
② We must pray.
You should pray when you are alone.
We need to be careful with the words "Jacob was left alone..." and "wrestling...".
In his lonely and lonely time left alone, he wrestled with an angel of God.
The expression wrestled literally means wrestling with an angel. However, the word is used in many other senses besides its literal meaning.
He expresses that he struggles even when he is worried.
It is said that working hard and working hard is also wrestling.
Jacob was wrestling with prayer to God. This is how it expresses how he prays while holding on to the angel of God.
Jacob deceived his brother and his father and ran away to the house of his mother, living in a foreign land where he had lived for 20 years.
After 20 years, Jacob returned to his hometown with 12 children and four wives, along with a large flock of sheep and servants, but his brother Esau, who he expected to be welcomed, was still unable to relieve the resentment he had received from his younger brother Jacob 20 years ago.
And when he heard that Jacob was coming back, according to Genesis 32:6, he came to Jacob with four hundred men.
Hearing this, Jacob fell into despair.
Why would you bring 400 people with you?
Jacob was very afraid and frustrated. And after having all his servants and family members cross the Yabbok River, he remained alone on the Yabbok River ferry and prayed mournfully to God.
Hosea 12:3-4 speaks of the word wrestling with an angel referring to earnest prayer.
"Jacob held his brother's heel in the womb, and in his old age he wrestled with God for strength, and with angels he prevailed and wept and made supplication to him, and God met him at Bethel, and there he spoke to us..." Said.
Sometimes in our lives we need some alone time.
Jacob was left alone in a moment of crisis.
When I prayed to God, I received God's answer. God is with those who remain alone and pray.
When material things leave and people leave, when they are left alone, they must stand alone before God. ,
When you stand in the moment you are left alone, God is with you.
③ You must believe that you are not alone.
In Exodus 3, Moses was called by God when he stood alone on Mount Horeb. It wasn't when he was pompous, loud, and ostentatious in a large crowd.
It was not called when I was in the royal palace of Egypt.
When I was alone in the depths of Mount Horeb, God called Moses to do the great work of saving Israel.
In 1 Kings 19:9, when Elijah, who had fled from the pursuit of King Ahab and Jezebel, was alone in a cave on Mount Horeb, God found him.
When I think that I am completely alone, I am never alone. Because God is with you.
Trust the God who is with you.
If you look at the text, you can see that Jesus mentioned several times when he was on this earth that he was not alone.
In John 8:16 it says, "If I judge, my judgment is true, because I am not alone, but the one who sent me is with me."
These words are premised on the premise that you are alone on the surface.
People seem to be alone, but the truth is that they are not alone. In John 8:29 it says, “He who sent me is with me; he has not left me alone, because I always do what pleases him.”
Jesus knew he was always alone, but he was never alone.
He knew that the Heavenly Father who sent him was with him. Because of God's presence, Jesus was alone, but he was not always alone.
The words of this text are giving us a very precious promise.,
It will not leave us alone as orphans.
Even if you ascend to heaven, you can see the heart of the Lord that he will ask the Father and send the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, to us so that we will never become pitiful beings like orphans.
So, take care of the time you are left alone.
1 Kings 18:22 says, "Elijah said to the people, "I am the only prophet left of the LORD, but the prophets of Baal are four hundred and fifty." Elijah did not lose courage in that time alone. He was bold and valiant in the presence of numerous prophets of Baal.
Don't blame yourself for the time you spend alone.
Please pray for the time you are alone.
Please believe that the time left alone is not alone.
When I'm alone, then I'm never alone. The time of being alone is the time God is with you.