LONELINESS

*****************************************

If you would like to share this blog with a friend, go to the bottom and click on the TELL A FRIEND

*******************************************

There is loneliness and some of you here this morning may be experiencing it at this very moment. You awoke in the middle of the night and your checklist of friends and family had shrunk.

Death, sickness, too many have moved to another city or state…or for yet another reason, a friendship or relationship that was, isn’t anymore. And it hurts and no, God has not died, but you have died inside.

Or, your health has been deteriorating and you see no light at the end of the tunnel.

Or, temptation is alive and well in the host of your days and you are weary from fighting it.
So then, what to do? Start a marathon session with your soul.

Catch up for lost time by talking and arguing with any parts of your soul that have started to drift.

Tell you soul to fill in the faithless gaps with God. Tell it once. Tell it a hundred times. Tell it a thousand times, if you must.

Why so much repetition? Because our faith in our God requires more than an occasional reference to it. “What a friend we have in Jesus?” Well now, don’t we want to be around a friend, and refer to a friend more than occasionally?

I recently read the perfect quote on what I am talking about in a book called SPIRITUAL DEPRESSION, IT’S CAUSE AND ITS CURE.

“The main art in the matter of spiritual living is to know how to handle yourself.

You have to take yourself in hand, you have to address yourself, preach to yourself, and question yourself.”

In other words, you must say to your soul, “Why art thou cast down? What business have you to be disquieted? You must turn on yourself, upbraid yourself… exhort yourself, and say to yourself, ‘Hope thou in God.’

********************************************

To view an abundance of unusual stories and comments by Neil Wyrick go to Neil’s other blog ONE A DAY, YOUR SPIRITUAL VITAMINS

Click on the following URL http://oneadayyourspiritualvitamins.blogspot.com/

******************************************

BELOW IS A QUOTE FROM A NEW SERIES on this Wyrick’s Writings site entitled ANGER IS A KILLER. It began Thursday January 6, 2010.

“Do you enjoy visiting friends? More than likely you’re thinking, Preacher, of course, I do.

Now let me ask the other side of the coin - Do you enjoy visiting enemies? No?

Well, I know you must enjoy visiting at least one enemy because, like myself, you probably visit this one quite often. Unfortunately, we all …visit this enemy…whose name is anger.

Some visit anger seldom . Some on a regular basis. And during those visits, some spew and others stew.”

TO WATCH NEIL WYRICK IN HIS ONE MAN DRAMAS (Presented to millions all around the world) (Ben Franiklin, Martin Luther, Charles Wesley and Abraham Lincoln (this Lincoln film takes 11 seconds to download but is worth the wait)

CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING
http://www.speakerneil.com/

******************************************