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Previous Daily Devotional
I know someone who is having a crisis. With his encouragement, I am using his crisis to
help others.
When there is no one to talk to… (Part 3 of 5)
Psalm 142:3 When my spirit grows faint within me, it is you who know my way. In the
path where I walk men have hidden a snare for me. 4 Look to my right and see; no one is
concerned for me. I have no refuge; no one cares for my life (NIV)
I was thinking of Elvis. So famous is he, even now, that we do not have to even give
his last name. Elvis died by himself. With all his fame, wealth, adulation, and power, he
died alone on the floor of his bathroom from a drug overdose. He overdosed on drugs
because he couldn't take the pain of loneliness any more. He couldn't deal with the fact
that he was in the world, adored by millions, but he had no one to talk to. What all of us
need to understand is that God is with us when we think no one is around. The basic human
problem of all human beings on earth is that we lead lives separate from each other. We
lead lives of quiet desperation but we lead lives of quiet desperation because the
desperation comes from the fact that we do not have anyone to share with or talk with. If
we go back into the lives of mass murderers, despots, terrorists, tyrants, and the
murderous leaders of history and interject a loving person in place of their loneliness,
we could change the world for the better. In Christ, it is your job to be that person to
interject love into hearts of others.
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