Connect With
Others!
"Be diligent to come to me quickly….
Only Luke is with me. Get Mark and
bring him with you, for he is useful
to me for ministry."
2 Timothy 4: 9, 11
When King Solomon wrote “there is nothing
new under the sun”
(Ecclesiastes 1:9), he was
not speaking literally. Obviously, there were no
smartphones when he wrote those words.
He was talking about human experience—the
repetitive cycles of human life with its ups and
downs and joys and defeats. And one of those
experiences is loneliness.
Something else that isn’t new is this: our tendency to
think that we are the only one struggling in a difficult
experience like loneliness. That isn’t true—the
Bible
contains many records of many servants of God who
experienced loneliness. One of them was the apostle
Paul when he was in
his final imprisonment before
his beheading.
In 2 Timothy 4:9-18 he recounts how he was
alone in Rome and was deserted by everyone.
To assuage his loneliness, he asked
Timothy
to bring Mark to Rome.
The more deeply connected we are with other
believers, the stronger is our defense
against
loneliness. Connect with others in the Body of
Christ and defeat loneliness together.
"Loneliness is
the first thing
which God’s eye named not
good."
John
Milton