I slept
fitfully between 3:45 and 5:45 this morning.
Mainly because the cat would jump on the bed, walk over my legs, curl up
next to Julie for a while, then jump off the bed and make a bunch of licking
noises for a while, then jump back on the bed, etc. This cycle repeated at least three times and
maybe four in that two hours. Finally
after trying to fall asleep, then waking up, then falling asleep, then waking
up, I just got up somewhat frustrated.
After being
awake and getting prepared for the day, I realized I was frustrated for no
reason and just figured God was wanting me to get up. Once I was ready and opened the front door
for the cat to go outside I realized I should have gotten up earlier. I really love early mornings. It’s peaceful and it’s the promise of a new
day. All things are new again.
For some
reason the line “Ah look at all the
lonely people” from the song Eleanor Rigby by the Beatles was
playing over and over in my mind. I
figure God was trying to tell me that there are a lot of people waking up
without a normally sweet loving cat – lonely.
There are a lot of people waking up without a dog that loves people and
can’t wait to see them every time they come home or wake up – lonely. There are a lot of people that don’t have
their children at home sleeping peacefully – lonely. There are a lot of people that don’t have a
husband or wife next to them in their bed at night – lonely. And there are a lot of people that do not know
that the Creator of the universe loves them deeply and only wants to fill their
wellspring of life and complete them forever – lonely forever.
Jesus said
in Matthew 28:20, “I am with you always”. Anyone who knows Jesus is never alone. 1 Peter 5:7 says for us to “cast all your
anxiety on Him because He cares for you.” Proverbs 18:24 says that “there is a friend
who sticks closer than a brother.”
In John 15:15 Jesus said “you are My friends, for all that I have heard from my Father
I have made known to you.” We
are friends of the Son of God, our Savior, and He is with us always. We can cast all our concerns, worries, and
fears upon Him. He can handle them.
He will
never reject us. Psalm 27:10 says that “though my father
and mother forsake me, the Lord will receive me.” The Lord will always accept us because of who
He is, 1 Samuel 12:22 tells us “for the sake of His great name the Lord will not reject His
people, because the Lord was pleased to make you His own.” Yes, the Lord was PLEASED to make you His son
or daughter and for His name’s sake, He will not reject you, ever. Finally, Paul pleads in Romans 8:31b-32, 35a,
37-38, “If God
is for us, who can be against us? He who
did not spare His own Son, but gave Him up for us all – how will He not also
along with Him, graciously give us all things? … Who shall separate us from the
love of Christ? … In all things we are more than conquerors through Him who
loved us. For I am convinced that
neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the
future, nor any powers.”
We, those
who are called Christian, are never lonely.
We need only to believe that God will fulfil every promise He made. He is faithful. In Revelation 21:5 Jesus says, “Behold, I make all
things new!” Every early
morning, every sunrise, and our hearts can be made new. He is faithful.
Dear Lord, thank you for this new day and
for every new day that can be lived with You.
Help me to appreciate every annoying thing in my life and see it as the
blessing it really is. Help me to get
out of the way and for your Spirit to lead me in communion, apart from every
knowing a single lonely moment. Thank
you for never rejecting me. Through
Christ I pray, Amen.
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