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Bible Verses about Loneliness. How does the Bible talk about loneliness? The Bible uses words like downcast, broken-hearted, troubled, miserable, despairing, mourning, and hopelessness. Not all of these words mean the same thing as lonely, but many of them overlap with loneliness.
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Jesus humbled himself to be “born in the likeness of men” (Philippians 2:7). We have little ability to comprehend just how much this cost him. He experienced both the absence of his Father and human rejection at levels we can scarcely begin to imagine. When I say that Jesus experienced the absence of his Father, I don’t mean that he didn’t enjoy sp...
Now, imagine what living in this world was like for him. Jesus was without sin (Hebrews 4:15). We might think this sounds like a pleasant problem to have. I doubt it was only pleasant. I suspect it tormented him. If Lot experienced daily torment while living in Sodom because of the “lawless deeds that he saw and heard” (2 Peter 2:8), how much worse...
His parents knew who he was and loved him deeply. But they wouldn’t have fully understood him. How could they? Nor would they have been able to protect him from others’ stinging remarks or cruel mocking over his strangeness. I wonder how much of that came from his siblings. His brothers and sisters (Matthew 13:55–56) would have grown increasingly s...
But that was all a precursor. There was a supreme moment of loneliness, so dark and deep that only Jesus has ever experienced. It was on the cross the moment he became sin for us (2 Corinthians 5:21). In that unfathomably horrible, incomprehensibly lonely moment, he felt forsaken by his Father (Matthew 27:46) and all those he loved. He was ravaged ...
But he can and does understand your loneliness. He can sympathize with this weakness more than you know (Hebrews 4:15). Jesus doesn’t merely understand your loneliness; he’s destroying it. Because he bore the sin that estranged and alienated you from God and died on your behalf, you are no longer truly a stranger or alien, but you are a fellow citi...
History reveals that the great men of the ages have always been, to some degree, lonely men. They produced their memorable works and thought their exceptional thoughts within the confines of lifestyles that few others under-stood. This characteristic was true of our Sav-ior, whom Isaiah described in prophecy as a man who “was despised and ...
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Sep 16, 2019 · The Bible has a lot to say about feeling lonely and its opposite, feeling connected. But before we get to that, let’s take a closer look at loneliness and the effect it has on us. Signs of Loneliness. It may be clear to you that you feel lonely—you long to feel connected to others, even to be held. But what if it’s not obvious?
May 17, 2020 · When you are alone and lonely, it is easy to believe that a spouse, or family, or church family will drive loneliness away. My experience, however, echoes Scripture’s teaching that 1 + 1 ≠ the absence of loneliness.
Mar 1, 2024 · There, Jesus endured the lonely lash of public mockery: “He saved others; he cannot save himself. . . . Let God deliver him now, if he desires him. For he said, ‘I am the Son of God’” (Matthew 27:41–43).
Turn to me and be gracious to me, for I am lonely and afflicted. The troubles of my heart are enlarged; bring me out of my distresses. Consider my affliction and my trouble, and forgive all my sins.
