We Are Not Alone
August 14, 2015
31 Jesus asked, “Do you finally believe? 32 But the time is coming—indeed it’s here now—when you will be
scattered, each one going his own way, leaving me alone. Yet I am not alone
because the Father is with me. 33 I have told you all this so that you may have peace in me.
Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows. But take heart, because I
have overcome the world.”
When Jesus asked them “Do you
finally believe?” He already knew the answer. He even told them they
would abandon Him. How often have we done that? Professed our faith in Christ
and then abandoned Him. One could say that many people do that every week. They
profess Jesus’ name at church and then spend the rest of the week away from Him.
We have all kinds of reasons for this. We woke up late. I
forgot. I have just been so busy at work, I need time for myself. What? Church
again? The kids have kept me running around.
Each of these and more are reasons we do not spend time in
prayer or read our Bibles. Yet, God is there, 24/7 for us. He never leaves. He
is never too busy.
Here is one of the other thoughts I had. Even though we are
surrounded by others, there are a lot of people out there who are lonely. The
reasons for this are numerous. Most people do not like to be alone. And some of
those who say they do, well I don’t think they do deep down inside. Is it nice
sometimes to have a little time to yourself? Absolutely. But for long periods
of time, no thank you.
The thing is, we are never really alone. Jesus reminds us
that we are never alone when He said, “Yet I am not
alone because the Father is with me.” And the Father is always with us. He is with us when we decide
to have one last drink and then drive home. He is with us when we are sitting
alone contemplating ending our life. He is with us every moment. People still
ask, where was God on 9/11? He was with each and every person including the
terrorists. He was telling the terrorists not to go through with it. He was
with the people on each of the plans and in the towers and at the Pentagon
hoping they would hear Him calling them to himself.
God was there
when I had my last accident. You don’t rear end someone on the interstate and
drive away from it. Yet He was reminding me to keep my distance because of the
construction and detour. That distance made the difference between cosmetic
damage and nobody getting hurt and what could have been much worse. Even the
other driver said I must have had someone riding along with me. Amen! I sure
did.
So what can
we do? We can listen when God tells us to go talk to someone. We can listen
when we hear Him tell us to go to a nursing home and visit people we do not
even know. I know a wonderful couple that does to a nursing home every
Wednesday to spend time with some of the residents. Do they know them? They
didn’t at first, but now they do. Never forget that God is always there,
through everything. Good or bad God is there. That is very comforting to me. It
helps me to get through a lot of situations. The thing is, I know He is there.
There are a lot of lonely people out there that do not know God so they do not
know He is there. For those of you that know me, that breaks my heart. It also
breaks God’s heart. I am in great company.
Father God,
thank you for always being there, even when we forget you are there. The hard
part for us Lord is realizing that we make choices and that others make choices
that place us in some bad situations, but You are still there. Help us to hear
You. Help us to show Your love to others so they can hear You too. So they can
realize they are not alone. Amen!
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