When You Are Left Alone

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When You Are Left Alone… Depend On God…

Jacob was left alone. (Genesis 32:24)

Like Jacob in the bible, many of us know how it feels to be "left alone".

When a loved one dies or a friend leaves, or you walk through the fire of separation and divorce, no matter how 'spiritual' you are it still hurts!

Emotional pain is to the soul what physical pain is to the body; it tells you something's wrong; that you need God to guide you through the challenges and upheavals of realigning your life to cope with what has happened. And the struggle doesn't begin in earnest while you're surrounded by people, it starts when you've been left alone!

The fact is you can survive without others, but you can't survive without God. That's why He sometimes strips away everything that makes us dependent on people. He sends certain individuals into your life to help build your faith and develop your character, and when they're gone, to leave you with the assurance that God's in control.

The loss of loved ones

(a) develops our Spiritual muscle;

(b) tests our resilience;

(c) shows us the scope of God's power.

When Moses died and Joshua was left in charge, God told him, "As I was with Moses, so I will be with you" (Joshua 1:5). That's something Joshua could never have learned while Moses was in the picture. And it's a lesson you can't learn while you're looking to other human beings for all your answers. In Mark 4:39 when Jesus "ordered the wind and waves to be quiet" the Bible says "everything was calm". In the midst of your storm, ask Him to come and stand in the bow of your boat, and to speak peace to the things that are upsetting you.

He'll do it!

(by Irma Raymond)