When You Are "Alone"
When He was alone…the twelve asked Him about the parable.
– Mark 4:10
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When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted desires, a broken friendship, or a new friendship – when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He begins to teach us. Notice Jesus Christ’s training of the Twelve. It was the disciples, not the crowd outside, who were confused. His disciples constantly asked Him questions, and He constantly explained things to them, but they didn’t understand until after they received the Holy Spirit (see John 14:26).
As you journey with God, the only thing He intends to be clear is the way He deals with your soul. The sorrows and difficulties in the lives of others will be absolutely confusing to you. We think we understand another person’s struggle until God reveals the same shortcomings in our lives. There are vast areas of stubbornness and ignorance the Holy Spirit has to reveal in each of us, but it can only be done when Jesus gets us alone. Are we alone with Him now? Or are we more concerned with our own ideas, friendships, and cares for our bodies? Jesus cannot teach us anything until we quiet all our intellectual questions and get alone with HIm.
– My Utmost For His Highest - January 13th (Oswald Chambers))
Beloved?
Sometimes, it’s good to be alone. See?
Again, you may feel alone, but you’re not really, not actually, not verily.
Rather, you’re alone with Him, your Beloved. See?
It isn’t so much aloneness, per se, it’s…Togetherness. It’s being united Together in peace and harmony in Love, without any distractions, without any interruptions, without anything vying for our attention. Yes?
Yes.
So, please, beloved. (said so very gently)
Please don’t fear to be “alone”. Don’t resist it, don’t fight it, don’t run away from it.
It’s Him, trying desperately, to single you out. He wants intimacy with you. He wants you all for Himself. He wants to be alone with you.
He will not stop until He has it. He will zealously pursue you and obliterate anything blocking His pathway towards you.
Nothing can separate you from His love, beloved:
For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. – Romans 8:38,39
Do you see, beloved?
It’s okay to be “alone”.
You’re never alone.
He pursues you, now, and always, beloved.