The Cry of Loneliness

Matthew 27:46

So you've never been on drugs, welfare, never been to jail, your not a social outcast but a respectable individual who jogs, host parties, wears designer clothes, have a home, condo or apartment that overlooks the beach.

And yet your very lonely, maybe these thoughts have crossed your mind;
"I see people together and I'm so jealous I want to throw up. What about me! What about me!"

Though surrounded by people, your on an island, you have many acquaintances but few friends and no love.

Loneliness

Can you hear it? The abandoned child. The divorcee. The quiet home. The empty mailbox. The long days. The longer nights. A forgotten birthday. A silent phone.

The world is full of people just like this in the convalescent home, prisons, manicured streets of  suburban America, aborted ambitions, in the halls of of our high schools where peer pressure weeds out the "have-nots" from the "haves".

It knows no boundaries from the failure to the famous, poor to rich, married to single, you are not alone.

This is to those who know this cry firsthand, those whose days are bookended with broken hearts and long evenings, those of you who can find a lonely person by simply looking in the mirror.

The most gut wrenching cry of loneliness in history was not from a prisoner or a widow or a patient. It came from a hill, from a cross, from a Messiah.

"My God, my God" he scremed, " why did you abandone me".

Never have words carried so much hurt. Never has one being been so lonely.

And now on Calvary's hill, the sinbearer is again alone. Every lie ever told , every object ever coveted, every promise ever broken is on His shoulders . He is sin.

God turns away His face from His son.

The two who have been one are now two. Jesus, who had been with the God for eternity, is now alone. The Christ. who was an expression of God, is abandoned. The Trinity is dismantled. The Godhead is disjointed. The unity is dissolved.

Jesus withstood the beatings and remained strong at the mock trials. He watched in silence as those he loved ran away. He did not retaliate when the insults were hurled nor did He scream when the nails piecrced His wrists.

But when God turned His face from Him, it was more than He could take.

"My God, my God why hast thow forsaken me"

Out of the silent sky come the words screamed by all who walk in the desert of loneliness.
"Why? Why have you abandoned me."

I imagine Him. I imagine Him listening to the cries of the lonely and broken hearted His eyes misting and a pierced hand brushing away a tear, as He says to you:

I understand I to was once alone.

If this touches home with you, if this is a mirror of your life, all hope is not lost, on that cross Jesus took your loneliness and despair and all your sins upon His shoulders so that you no longer have to bear them.

Take this moment if this you, and ask God to forgive you of your sins and to come into your heart and fill the lonely places that you have been carrying.

Just talke to God and ask Jesus to come into your life.

There are no special words or a prayer that someone can give you to say, but in your own words talk to Him
He will listen and answer.