Do you feel lonely or empty inside? I am sure you have felt that way one time or another. Some may try to fill that emptiness inside with drugs, alcohol, or maybe even sex. Some of you try hobbies and things to keep yourselves busy all the time. While others may use food for some kind of comfort.
You try many different things to get rid of the loneliness but you still feel empty inside. All these things can take the loneliness away temporarily, but they will never completely go away.
But let me tell you that there is nothing that will ever fill that hole in your heart, or emptiness that you feel inside except for God’s love. God’s love is bigger than anything you could ever imagine. More than the love you have for your parents, your children, or your spouse.
Psalms 103:11 says, " For as high as the heavens are above the earth so great is my love for those who love me."
And Jeremiah 31:3 says, "I have loved you with an everlasting love. I have drawn you with unfailing kindness."
God loves you with everlasting love! That means he will never stop loving you no matter what you say or do. I don’t know about you but I am ready to experience God’s love in my life! I want to experience true genuine love. And no longer feel that emptiness or void inside of me.
GOD WANTS A RELATIONSHIP WITH YOU
For years I couldn’t grasp that the Lord wanted to have a relationship with me. It just sounded funny to me. How do you have a relationship with someone you can not see. Plus, why would God of all people want to have a relationship with someone like me? Especially with all that I have done.
But will you believe Jesus Christ is that one person, that one relationship, you need? Will you admit you need him and confess that you have been going after other idols instead of coming to him to fill the emptiness inside of you?
The Merriam-Webster Dictionary says an idol is something that you have extreme devotion to. Any activity that you put before God. That you pour every ounce of your energy into, in hopes of it bringing you happiness. An idol can be drinking alcohol to cover the pain that you have experienced in your life, or spending all of your time on your phone instead of being with your kids or spouse.
STEPS TO HELP YOU OVERCOME THE FEELING OF BEING LONELY
In addition to letting God’s love fill your void or emptiness inside, here are some things you can do to help you when you feel blue.
Learn to love yourself– To do this you must learn what God thinks of you. God loves you and me no matter what you have done or will do. And I want you to know how much he does. So I have written a post titled What Does God Say About Me? that can show you how much God loves you. And a post titled “Learn 4 ways to Love Yourself” that can show you how to love yourself.
Keep a Journal– Keeping a journal will help you to write down what you are feeling and in doing that it can help you to process those feelings. I write in a journal all the time and it helps me to release all that I am feeling in the moment.
Stay Positive– Look at what you have instead of what you don’t have. Thank God for those things you have and try not to focus on the negative around you. Ask God to help you to remember all the good things he has done for you.
Sometimes feeling lonely is a natural thing. Acknowledge the feelings you have but don’t live in the feelings. Give those feelings over to God so he can help you process them.
CONCLUSION
Ask God to show you how to fill that emptiness. Pray and ask Him to help you learn to love Him the way He loves you. I promise you loving God will fill that void you have.
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Such great words. God loves you and wants a relationship. He doesn’t want a one-way street. He wants our love, our worship, and our undivided attention.
Yes He does. He wants us to come to him flaws and all!
Often times we try to get other people and things to fill the hole we have in our hearts. But the problem with that is we’re trying to fill a God sized hole and things/people simply cannot fill it. I’ve been guilty of that myself.
Its hard not to fill up our loneliness or emptiness with the things of this world. I am guilty of it too.
God always wants to have a relationship with us but sometimes we just don’t understand that sometimes. The relationship with him the greatest relationship of all time. I loved your post a lot. It’s amazing!
Thank you so much!