STANDING ALONE

We can not live our lives as a rule without allowing others into our privacy. How much and when it up to us.

Yet we also know that God has times when we must stand alone. Our live must pause the race and charade and be undressed before our maker.

We can seek all the help we want, but we must still live our lives. That includes choices and a host of other situations where the only hand we are expected to depend upon is the Lord's.

Some people take this to extremes. They want to shelter themselves behind stony faces, building walls to keep our any danger. In the process they end up living in a prison where light seldom touches. It is cold, dark and love never touches.

That is the downside of responding to a need. It never heals, never brings joy. Just ends up inflaming the ache inside.

But in those more precious moments of understanding. We come to grasp the significance of quiet times.

Providing you are listening to see when God is using the time for his purposes. Before we start feeling sorry for ourselves and wallowing in a pit of self-pity it is time to truly seek the Lord.

Are we in that position by choice or circumstance? Do we have choices in if that is a condition where we must stay?

However, it is hard to always be able to sort out the truth in such situations. That is not always as easy as we would wish.

And it gets complicated when are trapped with certain prejudices in our choices. That can make it very hard to see clearly.

Somewhere in all the moments, somewhere beyond the questions there are answers we can only find with God's help. And often they reside within.

Maybe we will listen if found in this quiet long enough. Others the challenge is to find out if we can truly discover the strength to stand.

It is amazing how we often cling to the idea that we can only stand if... Basically, that our strength is tied to some artificial element.

There are moments when that applies. And if we stand alone at the right time, we will with God's help learn the truth. Hopefully, we will do so in a climate where there are blessings and not pain.