Eternal Listener...

We live in a world that is driving us to be independent, to be our own island and that it is Me, Myself and I that can get us through everything. 'It is me and me alone that I can rely upon', and time after time when we are let down and hurt all we are left with is ourselves.

I don't buy it. Any of it.

Ipad, Ipod, Iphone. I don't need just 'I' I need something/someone to support me, hold me, challenge me and pick me up. Call me dependent, weak or even pathetic but I'd rather struggle knowing that I can and am able to place my burdens on someone else than knowing I'm struggling and there is no-one to help me. The latter isn't freedom or independence; that is loneliness. That is sad. That breaks my heart.

And yet for all those people, that are on the brink of utter despair from the loneliness and the devastation that it brings there is the simplest solution...

He is all I've ever needed, He is all I will ever need and He is the bearer of all my thoughts, tears, cries and problems...

God.

It may seem like the obvious answer if you've ever read my previous blogs or it may seem like the most ridiculous answer that's ever been suggested.

But God sent His only son to die brutally and excruciatingly on the cross just so He could be closer to YOU. Just so that you never have to feel alone again, just so that when you are are upset or angry you can tell Him and He can listen.

An eternal, faithful, steadfast friend. Can't ask better than that!? Ask yourself this: IF any of that is true, wouldn't it be amazing? IF He was there 24/7; next time you closed the door and showed the mess you really are and feel, wouldn't it be great to tell someone about it who wouldn't judge or sneer or be distracted?

In a world where people struggle to sacrifice a minute of their time or even to let someone out of a junction knowing there is a God who wants to listen is pretty flippin' amazing don't you think?