Hard To Imagine? No. It Is The Reality Of Truth
Can you imagine being in a family and still having soul loneliness? It happens all the time. Are you lonely? Soul loneliness is really prevalent in our society in this season of time. This has to be one of the most soul lonely generations in a very long time. Why? Busyness! Social Media Craziness! We don’t have time to make for that personal touch of a phone call or a visit. Even when we are with people, we are not really with them. They are on their phones, watching reels and laughing by themselves. How sad is that? It causes soul loneliness! This is the reality of truth in most families. We need to change it up.
Love One Another Like Jesus Did
We were created to be in relationship with each other. This generation has soul loneliness because we lean into emojis to express ourselves, we don’t talk, we don’t answer with words, we answer with an emoji. If you spend hours and hours on your phone and you have not called your Family: Mother, Dad, Grammy, Or Grampy in months, could you just turn off your reels for a few minutes and make a phone call? It is so easy, it is so helpful to break the cycle of soul loneliness in families. People are busy, yes we are, but if that busyness keeps us from even calling our family on Christmas Day, then it is way too busy. God has given us our family, and we need to be better stewards of the relationships He has given us. We need to once again learn how to love each other like Jesus loved us, by having a better priority for our family members, caring for them more, calling them more, visiting them more.
So I give you now a commandment: Love each other just as much as I have loved you. 35 For when you demonstrate the same love I have for you by loving one another, everyone will know that you’re my true followers. John 13:34-35
Selfishness Is A Factor
Are you with someone right now? Put down your phone and talk to one another. We have to break out of our social media isolation, and our busy- busy life patterns, and make time for each other. There is much more to life than the “selfie” and the time it consumes to posture yourself for that perfect tic-tock video. We are so distracted from one another in families in this generation. Everyone is on their phone, or their computer playing their games, no one is talking to one another. When is the last time you played a board game or cards with your family, or did a puzzle, or just sat around and talked? The worst is when you don’t even “hear” from your family on your birthday, you don’t hear their voice, you get a text. Why can’t we take the time to call? This is why we have extreme isolation and soul loneliness in this generation, it is a selfishness that is serving no power higher than self, and self-desires by being very selfish and stingy with time, and not investing it in others more than in yourself.
Abandon every display of selfishness. Possess a greater concern for what matters to others instead of your own interests. 5 And consider the example that Jesus, the Anointed One, has set before us. Let his mindset become your motivation. 6 He existed in the form of God, yet he gave no thought to seizing equality with God as his supreme prize. 7 Instead he emptied himself of his outward glory by reducing himself to the form of a lowly servant. He became human! 8 He humbled himself and became vulnerable, choosing to be revealed as a man and was obedient. He was a perfect example, even in his death—a criminal’s death by crucifixion! Philippians 2:4-8
Invest Quality Time In People
People Need People! Social Media can’t minister to the soul. It just can’t. We were created for human one on one, face to face communication. An emoji is not an answer, it doesn’t even come close to touching the soul of someone else. Why can’t we take a few more seconds and type a sentence?! Has it gotten that bad? Get to know your family again, talk to them, spend time talking and sharing. Get to know your neighbor, talk to them, invite them to dinner. We have to break the isolation that causes soul loneliness. What about your schedule, could you pencil someone in for a phone call? Voice to Voice? We have way too much on our life plate and not enough personal contact with people, and that is why soul loneliness is such a prevalent thing in our society. We need to change it up to be like what we were created to be, in relationship with God and each other. Let’s Do It. Call Someone. Visit Someone. Invite a neighbor for dinner. Serve the Lord by loving His people, by stepping out of isolation into community, and serve your family by being Present, off your phone. Put other’s needs before your own and invest quality time into your family relationships. Put The Phone Down, Be Present With Your Family.
For even the Son of Man did not come expecting to be served by everyone, but to serve everyone, and to give his life as the ransom price for the salvation of many. Mark 10:45
Psalm 116:12 What can I give back to God for the blessings he's poured out on me? I'll lift high the cup of salvation—a toast to God! I'll pray in the name of God; I'll complete what I promised God I'd do, and I'll do it together with his people. When they arrive at the gates of death, God welcomes those who love him. Oh, God, here I am, your servant, your faithful servant: set me free for your service! I'm ready to offer the thanksgiving sacrifice and pray in the name of God. I'll complete what I promised God I'd do, and I'll do it in company with his people, In the place of worship, in God's house, in Jerusalem, God's city. Hallelujah!
Dig Deeper
Teach us the joy of being emptied out for each other. May we be humbly willing to serve each other in our family lives, to empty ourselves out as we give kindness, encouragement, unconditional love, grace, mercy, help, and care to those in our family.
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