The Devotional - A Look at the Book #842

by Jesse Abel

 

A Word from Papa “J”

 

The commercial: The guy and the girl are setting at the bus stop playing a game on their “smart” phones. The guy loses and complains, the girl laughs. The little old lady also sitting and waiting for the bus calls him a whiner. My perception: One third of the world will brag, one third will whine and the other third will criticize. Romans 2:1

Good Morning

 

Some people claim that they prefer to be alone, to work alone and to do things solo. We call them loners; some folks are so much of a loner that you cannot borrow anything from them. So I asked myself this question: Why is it that someone can be branded with the title of loner, yet another cannot even borrow a moment of the loner’s time?

 

All answers to mankind’s emotional makeup are found in the Word of God and most if not all answers are found in the first book of the Holy Bible called Genesis. Did you know that the very first emotional obstacle in our human makeup that God determine to be a problem for us was, yes you guessed it! LONELINESS

 

Genesis 2:18 – God provides for mankind so his every need is fulfilled in Christ and for Christ. If I chose to reject any of the needs that God provides it is not God who dropped the ball, it is me. Colossians 1:19-20 gives us insight to the fullness of God through Jesus.

 

So here is the rub, if there is one! Until one comes to faith in Christ, we are needy people, when Christ is believed on the empty void in our heart is satisfied with His presents via the Holy Spirit. Until then the soul is lonely and needy, Ecclesiastes 3:11 and 2 Corinthians 3:17.

 

Neediness is like a spilt bag of marbles on a slightly tilted surface, we cannot seem to catch up with all the needs of life as these roll away gaining speed. This is a weakness and this is where loneliness has its most dangerous moments.

 

Without help our scurry to grab the needs of life (and believers do this too) without giving thanks to God who meets all our needs, that person becomes abusive and cynical. So when God observed that it was not good for mankind to be alone, He was not just looking at loneliness, He was also looking at all of the “one another’s” that He teaches us throughout His Holy Word.

 

The apostle Paul puts it this way: For though He was crucified in weakness, yet He lives by the power of God. For we also are weak in Him, but we shall live with Him by the power of God toward you – 2 Corinthians 13:4 in this many of us fail the test. 2 Corinthians 13:5 since we rely on the flesh to meet our expectations and not on the power of God to meet our needs.