HEARTBREAKING LONELINESS! “And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day” (Genesis 32:24). Most young people never go that far. But the rise of drug abuse, and even suicide, show that an increasing number of college-age and high school-age young people have also given up hope of ever overcoming their alienation and loneliness. Green Day’s popular song “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” expresses the alienation many young people feel today. I walk a lonely road The only one that I have ever known Don’t know where it goes But it’s home to me and I walk alone... I walk alone. I walk alone. I walk alone. (Green Day, “Boulevard of Broken Dreams,” 2004). Have you ever felt like that? I know I did when I was young. This morning I am going to give four thoughts about the loneliness so many young people feel today. Please listen carefully because what I am going to say about loneliness could change the direction and course of your entire life! But I would be dishonest if I didn’t tell you that you must have a deeper experience if the cure for loneliness is to be a lasting one. It’s great to have friends in the church, but that’s only the beginning. If your only purpose is to have new friends, you won’t get saved, and you will one day be cut off from God, and everyone else, in Hell. And there is no more lonely place in all the universe than Hell! If all you are looking for is new friends, you will leave sooner or later to run off with a boyfriend or girlfriend, or to sin in some other way. Or you will ultimately die – and then experience the worst loneliness of all – in the Lake of Fire! To permanently cure loneliness, you must go deeper – and you must look inwardly. “And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day” (Genesis 32:24). This lonely night-long contest represents the deeper, inward searching of the soul for Jesus Christ. You see, the man Jacob wrestled with was Jesus Christ Himself – the pre-incarnate Christ! Jesus said: “Ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart” (Jeremiah 29:13). Only when you strive to enter into Christ can you experience conversion, and find “peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ” (Romans 5:1). You are cut off from God by sin. That’s why God isn’t real to you. Only through an inward conversion can you find “peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ” (Romans 5:1). by Dr. R. L. Hymers, Jr.
Posted on: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 08:18:06 +0000
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