It is sometimes lonely to be Christian. There aren’t many walking with you. And even those who used to walk with you are no longer. At times, a thought comes, “Am I in this alone? Why should I keep going when no one else is?”
I do find consolation in the fact that the Bible said this will happen to those who are following God. Jesus Himself was a “man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.”
And reading through the book of Jeremiah, there was a man who knew sorrow and loneliness. He was called a “crying prophet” for his constant tears. He saw his people perishing because they would not obey the Lord. He pleaded with them day and night to turn from their idol worship and turn to God but they would not.
That is how I feel sometimes. I see idols all around and people perishing because of them. Drug addiction. Homosexuality. Extravagant spending. Homelessness. Meaninglessness. Hopelessness, etc.
You and I live in Sodom and Gomorrah. If you are “righteous,” then your soul will be tormented just like Lot’s soul was.
“for as that righteous man (Lot) lived among them day after day, he was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard.” 2 Peter 2:8
Do not love the world or anything in the world.
If you have to be lonely because you are separate from the world, then so be it.
PH