No-one likes to be alone. Loneliness is a darkness that each of us has felt at one tome or another. For some people, their existence is one of being alone, even in a crowd and no matter where they go or who surrounds them, there is a haunting cloud that gathers around them and they can’t shake it no matter how hard they might try. Again, no-one likes to be alone. We are made to need people.

But todays post is about another type of aloneness. This is an aloneness that all of God’s children should endeavor to pursue. This aloneness is one that God has designed, not to our hurt, but to our blessing. There is a time when we find ourselves alone but something is different here. It is in this stillness that we experience a loving God and Savior and we learn more and more of whom He actually is and what we mean to Him. We are told to search for this quietness. In Psalm 46, God tells us to “Be still, and know that I am God…The Lord of Hosts is with us…” (Psa. 46:10, 11).

There is a solace in knowing that we are in the presence of a loving God who concerns Himself with our emotions and emptinesses. In acknowledging Him in our quiet times, God has provided us for us to behold His love and compassion as His desire is to surround us with His presence. Where would be a better place that that. In His presence.

Many of us will think so negatively when we are alone and there are no friends, family, or anyone else to interact on a personal basis, to lean on and know that they understand what we are feeling, but, then there is the Lord Jesus. Let us not forget to pursue a quiet time just to be still and “know that I am God…the Lord of Hosts is with us.” The Scripture tells us that He understands us completely and even in our brokenness and dents and scratches He wants to spend time with us on an intimate level.

God reminds us that it is in quietness before Him that we find strength for life. “For thus saith the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength” but this is a gift that is so often left unopened. The remainder of the verse laments…“and ye would not.” How sad. Some will say they are too busy and just can’t find the time to be still. That is the time when we need to be still the most and set in His presence. God had a word for those to distracted to know Him…“When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned: Neither shall the flame kindle upon thee…Fear not: for I am with thee…” (Isaiah 43:2, 5a).

Let me encourage you to spend some quite time with the Lord, and just know Him…I think I will do that now.

Until then,

Brother Glenn