I have to keep going back to this verse often in my life:
“Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.”
Psalm 23:4
FOR THOU ART WITH ME. When no one else is or seems to be, He is with me.
Our Christian walk is sometimes very lonely in this world and few are willing to endure taking up their cross because the cost is high, friends don’t come easy and family would rather you never spoke a word about this truth you cling to because it doesn’t seem loving to them. This world is not getting better. It’s not. True Christianity just isn’t worth it to many. Unless it comes alongside all that is shiny and fun and freedom to sin as one wishes the label is good enough but if it involves sacrifice in the least little bit then to the majority it isn’t the road they wish to walk. It seems as long as you’re in agreement with the world friends are countless and always around.
Though genuine believers walk a lonely road we have a God who never leaves our side. If not for this truth revealed to me at such a young age and clinging to it for most of my life I don’t know how I would have ever endured this life up until now. I thank God for His word to comfort me, to bring me joy and peace and to sustain me. I thank Him for true Christian friends who know the trials and temptations of this life. It ain’t easy! But oh for the grace of God!!!! He is with me! He shares in our weaknesses! He knows the temptations of this world!! He knows!
For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin.
Therefore let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
Hebrews 4:15-16 NASB
This link I am sharing below is worth the read. If you’re a genuine Christian you’re going to understand just what this is talking about. When no human seems to understand you can trust The Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit to understand.
https://endtimesprophecyreport.com/2014/06/08/narrow-road-true-christianity-is-a-lonely-road/
You can enter God’s Kingdom only through the narrow gate. The highway to hell is broad, and its gate is wide for the many who choose that way. But the gateway to life is very narrow and the road is difficult, and only a few ever find it.
Matthew 7:13-14 NLT
I have become estranged from my brothers And an alien to my mother's sons.
Psalms 69:8, NASB
“Nevertheless, when the Son of Man cometh, will he find faith on the earth?”Luke 18:8
For the church, the outcome looks cold, bare and lacking. Will He find genuine faith when He returns or superficial faith that does not save? Oh that we all would engage more-so in knowing Him.
“And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake.”
Luke 21:17
For I came to SET A MAN AGAINST HIS FATHER, AND A DAUGHTER AGAINST HER MOTHER, AND A DAUGHTER-IN-LAW AGAINST HER MOTHER-IN-LAW; and A MAN'S ENEMIES WILL BE THE MEMBERS OF HIS HOUSEHOLD.
"He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; and he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.
Matthew 10:35-37 NASB
THE LONELINESS OF THE CHRISTIAN
By A.W. Tozer
The loneliness of the Christian results from his walk with God in an ungodly world, a walk that must often take him away from the fellowship of good Christians as well as from that of the unregenerate world. His God-given instincts cry out for companionship with others of his kind, others who can understand his longings, his aspirations, his absorption in the love of Christ; and because within his circle of friends there are so few who share his inner experiences he is forced to walk alone. The unsatisfied longings of the prophets for human understanding caused them to cry out in their complaint, and even our Lord Himself suffered in the same way.
The man [or woman] who has passed on into the divine Presence in actual inner experience will not find many who understand him. He finds few who care to talk about that which is the supreme object of his interest, so he is often silent and preoccupied in the midst of noisy religious shoptalk. For this he earns the reputation of being dull and over-serious, so he is avoided and the gulf between him and society widens. He searches for friends upon whose garments he can detect the smell of myrrh and aloes and cassia out of the ivory palaces, and finding few or none he, like Mary of old, keeps these things in his heart.
It is this very loneliness that throws him back upon God. His inability to find human companionship drives him to seek in God what he can find nowhere else.
