Loneliness is more than being alone. It eats at the soul like rust. It takes quiet and twists it into accusation: You are unwanted. You are forgotten. I’ve felt that corrosion. Surrounded by people but hollow inside. Laughter all around, but silence screaming within. Loneliness doesn’t just sit in the room it sits in your bones. But the Word exposes the lie: “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.” (Hebrews 13:5) Loneliness says I am abandoned. But God says I am chosen. Loneliness feeds on absence, but His presence fills every corner. The rust cannot last where His Spirit breathes. So when loneliness whispers that I am forgotten, I remember: His name is Emmanuel God with us. With me. Loneliness does not have the final word. Love does.
Reflection Question: In your most forsaken moments, do you believe the voice of loneliness, or the promise of the One who never leaves?
The crowd fades away.
Yet one voice calls out your name.
Forsaken no more
In Luminance 