For some, Christmas is one of the most depressing times of the year. Some folx get just downright lonesome if they have to be all by themselves and see so many others with family they belong to and celebrate with. Some dont have much of a family, if any. And it starts to gnaw at your innards if you pay enough attention to it; you start to feel a big emptiness inside you were blissfully unaware of before the holidays came around. I used to be married to a girl like that myself, and it was a full-time job just trying to keep her looking at all the positive stuff instead of settling on the negative. But Ive learned something very special over the years: Gods own aint never alone--and when any of us feel that way (as we ALL do from time to time), it might be that we just havent lately taken a look around and seen all the ways Jesus reveals Himself to us personally in that One-on-one relationship that only He can have with us. While it is true that there is strength in numbers, a lot of folx dont realize that the highest number that exists is Jesus + 1 when the 1 is YOU. Sometimes, in order to see just how MUCH thats true, He has to get us away from everything and everybody else before we can even be CAPABLE of realizing it. Ive always believed its better to be lonesome by myself than be with someone and still be lonesome, but I take a lot of comfort from the fact that even experiencing loneliness in the times when I have, I was walking in the footsteps of Jesus in a dose small enough for me to handle. Truly His yoke is easy and His burden is light because He sizes and weights it just perfectly for whichever of His sheep its custom-designed for. I used to know loneliness to the depth it was felt by Jimi Hendrix when he sang The Burning of the Midnight Lamp many years ago. The way Jesus adjusted that, it has turned from agony to ecstasy just in my lifetime. To me personally, thats as amazing as having seen Him turn water to wine. If youre all by yourself this Christmas, look around in prayer and ask God to show you how you can experience His promises to us at Matt. 28:20 and Heb. 13:5. He will. Just realize ONE thing, though: as wonderful an experience as that will be, you wont ever have ANOTHER Christmas that will compare to it. NOTHING comes even close to as great as what time alone with Jesus is. Serious bidness. God bless every doggone one of yall, and yall have yselves a Merry Christmas anyway now, hear..?? ;-) (y) ~~~~~~~~~~~~ https://youtube/watch?v=xll2AE49Gvw The morning is dead And the day is, too Theres nothing left here to meet me But the velvet moon All my loneliness I have felt today Its like a little more than enough To make a man throw himself away And I continue To burn the midnight lamp Alone Now the smiling portrait of you Is still hangin on my frowning wall But It really doesnt, really doesnt bother me Too much at all Its just the ever falling dust That makes it so hard for me to see That forgotten earring layin on the floor Facing coldly towards the door And I continue To burn the midnight lamp Lord, alone Burn Lonely, Lonely, Lonely Loneliness is such a drag So here I sit and pace That same old fireplace Gives rise to the same old explosion Goin through my mind And soon enough time me tell, About the circus and the wishing well And someone who will buy and sell for me Someone who will toll my bell And I continue To burn the same old lamp Lone Yeah Lightnin, can ya hear me callin you? So lonely Gonna blow my mind Yeah, yeah Lonely lonely My my
Posted on: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 16:42:12 +0000
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