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We live in a world where much of our interaction with others is virtual. The virtual world is so advanced it can FEEL real, but it’s a temporary solution. We can’t benefit from the needed sensory response offered by a real hug, from a real person as we might at church. With an overdose of virtual things can come isolation, followed by vulnerability, followed by poor judgment and poor decisions.
Have you ever just NOT wanted to do what is right? Isolation makes it easier.
Someone once told me, “I know you’re right, and I know what is right, but I don’t want to DO what is right.” It broke my heart because I realized that person had become so isolated that he couldn’t be reached anymore.
There is a worldwide family that loves and cares about you.
In the bible, over 250 times it says in the New Testament that Christians are called brothers and sisters. Two hundred fifty times! You and I are supposed to lift one another up. If we only go to church on Sunday and we never listen to anything during the week that will feed our faith, how are we to stay as strong as we need to be? Spiritual food keeps us from getting hungry and vulnerable.
“You Just don’t know me, Pastor. You don’t know my pain or my situation.”
I know you might be double-minded right now. You want to get better, but you feel safer in the pain of the past. Pity is called a party because misery loves company. What you need is others to invite you to a party that will get you focused on what you have instead of what you don’t.
I may be a Pastor, but I KNOW what it is like to hurt.
My first wife of eight years walked down the stairs and said, “I don’t love you anymore” and then walked out the door; it still hurts. I became so isolated that I was determined never to be hurt like that again.
I know what it’s like to get married again and then not be able to look my new wife in the eyes for the first 5 years while telling her, “I love you” without talking in a Donald Duck voice. Then year after year of her loving, believing in, embracing, and encouraging me, and I finally peeked out of the bubble.
God is real and personal, not virtual.
God is a personal God. He wrote a book called the bible from Genesis 1 to Revelation 22:21. God wants to pop your bubble today. He wants to get you dreaming again, loving, being free, and controlling your life again.
So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed. (John 8:36) Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the LORD. (Zechariah 4:36)
Have you acknowledged Him? As someone who knows pain, join me in knowing God today.
He’s just waiting, and He IS the answer to EVERYTHING you’re looking for today.
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