Article September 11, 2017 Issue

Your right to companionship

Mark Raffles

Are you lonely? Does it seem as if everyone has someone special but you? When faced with the challenge of loneliness, many believe that the solution lies in becoming more popular or attractive. They may seek a better body through diet, exercise, or even surgery. Still others seek the answer in a new wardrobe or hairstyle. But there’s a different path, one with the promise of a true, lasting solution. It’s an answer based on a better understanding of your relation to God.

The Apostle Paul said in the book of Romans, “For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord” (8:38, 39).

If anyone knew about circumstances that suggested separation from God, it was Paul. He was imprisoned, beaten, shipwrecked, and bitten by a poisonous snake. Yet he knew that his relation to God as His very own spiritual expression was intact, that he was continuously within His care. And Paul proved that oneness in his healing and teaching ministry.

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