Unexpressed or unexplained fear is causing more depression and loneliness than I can predict. Young adults are hiding and not feeling known because they fear this will be taken the wrong way.
Stop it.
Find someone who is loving and trusting and
tell them everything. Or at least
try. If they don’t get it, regroup and
tell somebody else who does. Don’t let
the ashamed unknown eat away at you like a cancer.
Did you know that
the Bible describes a moment where all hell breaks loose on Jesus and all his
closest friends desert Him and leave Jesus all alone. [i] Jesus
alone is not a something you hear preached very often. God
himself has felt your predicament to its fullest. Yet Jesus' strong statement of faith in the alone
was this, “Yet I am not alone, for my Father is with me.”
We are not all alone. We are not that special. God never gave us the prideful right to think
that we are above or below anyone helping us.
Others can help if you will let them in.
God can help. Choose someone who
really cares and if you don’t have any friends like that, go to a church or
find a stranger who will listen because you deserve that. Pray out loud because God wants to hear. God will understand our crazy. One of his qualities to the max is patience. When we are at our wits end for an answer, then the Holy Spirit can give us an answer. But how can He give us an answer when we are still well supplied with all sorts of answers of our own. [ii]
Perspective Changer
Let
it marinate and soak in. Reflect and read this statement below three times:
I
called on your name, LORD,
from
the depths of the pit.
You
came near and said,
“Do
not fear.”[iii]
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