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Some think that David penned this psalm at the time of Absalom's rebellion; others that Daniel, Nehemiah, or some other prophet, penned it for the use of Israel , when it was in captivity in Babylon
Starts sad but ends in hope from the Messiah!
Jesus our living hope!
Psalm 102:1-7 “1 Hear my prayer, O Lord, And let my cry come unto thee. 2 Hide not thy face from me In the day when I am in trouble; incline thine ear unto me: In the day when I call answer me speedily.
3 For my days are consumed like smoke, And my bones are burned as an hearth.
4 My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; So that I forget to eat my bread.
5 By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.
6 I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
7 I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.”
We could call this a sad song.
A Psalm full of lament.
What is the cause of the writers problem?
What could make them feel this way?
What could cause all the issues in their life?
What could cause all that affliction?
He was in a bad way.
Life was ruined.
What caused or contributed to this?
They are lamenting in the fact they’re alone.
The cause of this persons problems was loneliness
Not lonesomeness, not solitude but loneliness
Solitude is good.
We need some solitude.
We need to get alone.
You can be alone without being lonely.
Loneliness- Feeling alone when you don’t want to
It is feeling cut off.
It is feeling unnoticed, unloved, uncared for, unneeded, and maybe even unnecessary
Loneliness is a big deal!
If we do not learn to handle loneliness I’m afraid that loneliness will handle us!
at any given moment 1/3 of all people are lonely or rather feel that way
It’s an issue that sees no discrimination all people can suffer from it
rich, poor, high, low
presidents, professionals, prestigious people
It can even affect the popular.
Lonely in a crowd?
Thoreau said, “A city is a place where hundreds of people are lonely together.”
Paul Tournier, the noted Swiss psychiatrist, said this: “Loneliness is the most devastating malady of this age.”
Today we are going to learn how God can remedy our loneliness
Psalm 102:6-7 “6 I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
7 I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.”
They felt like a bird in the wilderness
small, vulnerable, insignificant, alone
Like an owl in the dessert
who gives a hoot?
Maybe thats you today of thats been you?
Nobody cares?
Im too small?
Im just like that sparrow- all alone
Comforting fact: God knows about that sparrow
Matthew 10:29 “29 Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing?
and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.”
Loneliness’ consequences
Loneliness is not a good thing!
Look what God had to say about it.
Genesis 2:18 “18 And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.”
This loneliness had negative effects on the person
It had consumed their life!
Health problems
Psalm 102:4 “4 My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; So that I forget to eat my bread.”
Psalm 102:5 “5 By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.”
There are correlations between loneliness and heart attack, stroke, cancer, and early onset dementia
Emotional Pain
Psalm 102:4 “4 My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; So that I forget to eat my bread.”
Psalm 102:9 “9 For I have eaten ashes like bread, And mingled my drink with weeping,”
Loneliness had ruined their emotional state
How often does that happen to us?
Loneliness- linked to anxiety, depression,
that lashing out? that bad response?
that insecurity ?
Scriptural Premise
Genesis 2:18 “18 And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.”
Paul in 2 Timothy 4 Didn’t want food or freedom he wanted fellowship!
Loneliness’ causes
What we’re the causes of this Psalmist’s loneliness?
Believing lies from the Enemy
Psalm 102:8 “8 Mine enemies reproach me all the day; And they that are mad against me are sworn against me.”
A cause of loneliness is we forget truth or believe lies.
We must beware of who we listen to
A trick of the enemy has always been “propaganda”
Their enemies had spat out a bunch of reproach against them
We must believe truth!
John 17:17 “17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.”
God’s word over their word
Psalm 119:28 “28 My soul melteth for heaviness: Strengthen thou me according unto thy word.”
A trial
Psalm 102:10 “10 Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: For thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down.”
God was doing something in their life and it had caused him to feel alone
Sometimes the trial and the feelings involved are just unavoidable but we can KNOW that God is working
James 1:2-4 “2 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; 3 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
4 But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.”
1 Peter 1:7 “7 That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:”
They were in a trail, a time of trying, a test
just know the trials aren’t forever
A test is just preparation for a higher level
God often uses the times we feel alone in trials to build us
Moses in the desert
Jesus in the wilderness
Elijah at the Brook
Joseph in jail
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