Do you mean in the sense that no one's listening? I've felt similar... like I'm screaming as loud as I can and there is sound coming out, but no one hears it.
Yes ,however I do think people would listen, its just they dont know what to listen for. Partly because I dont really express things the way I should sometime but I am diffinatly feeling like no matter how loud I scream no body seems to hear. I'm feeling trapped in solitude again (the solitude within my mind that is), I know the Lord is always with me but I still feel isolated due to my thought processes.
Gosh, I know exactly what you mean. Not often I come across someone else that feels the same. My view on the subject is that everyone's broken (sin nature, fallen nature, whatever you prefer to call it). We're not in God's ideal state anymore. Using His Word to point us in the direction of the ideal state is as close as we get, for now. The way your brain works... the way my brain works... the way someone else's brain works and everyone inbetween, is all programmed through brokenness. We do the best we can. Thank God we have Jesus because there's no way we could fix it on our own, try as we may. Feeling isolated is a huge part of my life, too. Seems contrary, but it's just the way it is. Maybe if we didn't feel like that, we wouldn't lean on the Lord. Maybe it's actually a blessing.
True... I can only imagine how isolated Jesus must have felt. I am by no means comparing myself to Jesus for I am merely a worm in comparison. When people don't seem to understand, we run and fall into the arms of our savior for He understands just how lonely and isolated we feel at times. Maybe you are right, maybe it is actually a blessing.
okay, about this isolation thing, there's two lines of thought here that are important to differentiate between. We must expect some feelings of the isolation that come from being a friend of God, we are different, think different,we are aliens and strangers in this world. There may even be some isolation from other believers that aren't quite where you are on the journey. But our enemy also uses feelings of isolation against us to keep us from drawing the strength God intended us to from each other, as believers. If he can cut us off from the rest of the flock, we are an easy mark. We must resist the lie that we are alone in this world, that no one could possibly understand or relate to us and we must stay close to at least a small group of believers that can fight with us and for us when we are under attack. It is crucial to survival. Pray for clarity on which one is the case here and resist the lie and submit to the Truth.
absolutely agree with your statement ....."But our enemy also uses feelings of isolation against us to keep us from drawing the strength God intended us to from each other, as believers. If he can cut us off from the rest of the flock, we are an easy mark..." I still fellowship with many people I love to go out after church and dine with other.I guess the isolation I was referring to was more on an intimacy level with others and being understood so to speak. I am a thinker I think all the time and most people I encounter are wonderful no doubt but they don't want to talk about deeper things in life. I guess I feel I have limited people in my life that I can say actually know who I really am.
I've felt similar... like I'm screaming as loud as I can and there is sound coming out, but no one hears it.
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My view on the subject is that everyone's broken (sin nature, fallen nature, whatever you prefer to call it). We're not in God's ideal state anymore. Using His Word to point us in the direction of the ideal state is as close as we get, for now. The way your brain works... the way my brain works... the way someone else's brain works and everyone inbetween, is all programmed through brokenness. We do the best we can. Thank God we have Jesus because there's no way we could fix it on our own, try as we may.
Feeling isolated is a huge part of my life, too. Seems contrary, but it's just the way it is. Maybe if we didn't feel like that, we wouldn't lean on the Lord. Maybe it's actually a blessing.
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