Charles
Elliott Newbold, Jr. - www.charlesnewbold.org
Alone And Loneliness
If you are one of
those individuals who feel alone and lonely, having come out of the harlot
church system and having not found fellowship with others, you may find
this article comforting.
As believers in Messiah, we are a body of
related members; therefore, it is quite normal and necessary that we not
live in isolation one from another if possible. Many of you desire true
fellowship with other believers, but know that God has called you out of
the organized, corporation church system. Even while in it, you
found little true fellowship if any. As was the case for many years, my
wife and I found very few people who wanted to “be” the body of Messiah
with us unless we were connected to one of those Things we call church.
So, what are we to do?
Our
Bridegroom is very jealous for His bride. He has always been jealous, but
He is getting more demonstrative in His jealousy in these latter days. He
wants to rid us of any and all idols that steal our affection away from
Him.
Idols are those things
we depend upon for our sufficiency other than the Lord Yeshua (Jesus)
Messiah. Church and fellowship can certainly be one of those idols. They
tend to steal the bride’s affection away from her intended.
Loneliness itself can serve a good
purpose. We tend to be lonely for someone or something we miss. That
person or thing we miss might very likely be an unwholesome dependency in
our lives. Any dependency other than on God is idolatry. So, loneliness
may be exposing an idol.
There is a difference between aloneness
and loneliness. To be alone with God is wonderful. To be alone without God
leads to loneliness, emptiness, and despair.
He alone can see the idolatries in our
hearts. He loves us enough to take them from us so that we can turn to Him
with a whole heart and abandon everything else in our heart.
Enjoy your time of separation unto Him
who is your Bridegroom and do not struggle for “fellowship” or anything
else. He is calling you into a new order altogether. Don’t look for
anything to be like you used to know it. A new order altogether is coming.
Be content in Him and
with Him. When we come to that place in our hearts when we know that He
alone is our sufficiency, when we don’t need these idols anymore, then He
will give it to us as He chooses. He is quite capable of providing
fellowship and Kingdom relationships.
Moreover, when we come out of those
Things to which we have been addicted, we generally need a time for
detoxification from them. As surely as we try to start something in its
place, it won’t be long until we have once again another one of those
Things on our hands. We tend to go back into what we came out of, until
what we came out of has been taken out of us.
Keep your eyes on Jesus, the author and
finisher of your faith. Let Him be your sufficiency. He places you in His
body as He wills.