Never Alone!
"Indeed the hour is coming, yes, has now come, that you
will be scattered, each to his own, and will leave Me alone.
And yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me."
John 16: 32
In 1913, when William Howard Taft welcomed his successor,
Woodrow Wilson, to the White House, he warned Wilson that
the presidency was “the loneliest place in the world.”
Wilson would later write,
“I never dreamed such loneliness
and desolation of heart possible.”
We don’t often think of leaders as being lonely, but it happened
to the apostle Paul. In his second Roman imprisonment, he was
confined in the dreadful Mamertine prison in Rome, from which
he penned his second letter to Timothy.
He sent some co-laborers to other fields (2 Timothy 4:10) but had
been deserted by everyone but Luke (4:11, 16). He longed to see
Timothy and Mark (4:11).
Was anyone with Paul when he died by
beheading? We don’t know of
any human coworkers who were
there. But we know that God was with him.
No matter how alone we may be or feel, God continues to
pour out His love for us by the Holy Spirit (Romans 5:3-5).
Be assured He is with you, even at this moment.
"One trouble with being an atheist is that you
have nobody to talk to when you are alone."
Anonymous
