Alone

DEVOTION
PROVERBS
ALONE
Prov 14:10
10 Each heart knows its own bitterness,
and no one else can share its joy.
NIV
Can any stranger really have empathy for the deep feelings within a person’s soul? When pain and sorrow fill the heart of a person, they stand alone without any true sense of companionship. No matter how much another might say, “I feel your pain” it is nothing more than empty words. Each soul, each spirit is alone in the world to travel the course of life singularly. Even that expression of “Soul mates” is just that, and expression, but not actually a reality. Only the one soul itself knows the pain and suffering it feels deep within as well as any bitterness or hatred it feels toward others. No matter the amount of counseling or therapy aloneness is still within. No person can truly understand and share in the inner feelings of the other. Sometimes it might be due to kept secrets, but nevertheless even when all feelings are shared in words, the experience is not. This is also true when the spirit is set free by Jesus Christ. When the true joy fills the heart of a person, they are still alone. Yes, we can gather together with like-minded people, stand with arms raised to God, singing out hearts out with praise and adoration to our Lord and Savior, but we still stand alone, only really knowing the joy that is within our own being. Each person comes to the experience of joy with different baggage, different pains and sufferings, a different deep and dark past which never leave the memory and thus stand alone with a joy only that person truly understands. When it is said that a person’s relationship with God is a personal one, it is truly just that. Yes, we can share a life together enjoying the union of a receptacle love. We can share in experiences of happiness and even moments of sorrow. We can share our time, our thoughts, dreams and aspirations. We may even share feelings of hurts as well as those moments of certain joys, but when it comes down to the final analysis, each person will stand before God alone for each person is truly alone deep within they soul, their spirit. Alone with God is just fine.