Alone
Close your eyes.
Imagine you.
Imagine you standing.
Alone.
Imagine all of your family gone.
Imagine all of your friends, every single one of them, gone.
Imagine your church, gone.
The hymns and songs you know so well, gone.
The pews or rows you sit in, near the familiar people you sit near on Sundays, gone.
The ministries you serve in, gone.
All the friends you get excited to catch up with after church, gone.
The people in your life group who spend hours praying over and with you, gone.
Even the grocery store you shop in, and the gym you workout in, gone, gone.
The school you drop your kids off at everyday, gone.
Your neighbors, gone.
The ceiling you gaze up at when you wake every morning, gone.
The skyline you've seen the sun set and rise for all of your life, gone.
You are still you, with nothing, seemingly nothing, that once surrounded you, and dare I say, what
used to make you who you are.
Who are you now?
Stripped of everyone and everything you know.
Who is that person?
You are alone.
Alone with nothing, but whole with the very One thing.
You are alone in Christ.
That is all of you.
That is you.
Christ in you.
"In Christ Alone, my hope is found;
He is my light, my strength, my song.
This cornerstone, this solid ground,
Firm through the fiercest drought and storm.
What heights of love, what depths of peace
When fears are stilled, when strivings cease
My Comforter, my All in All
Here in the love of Christ, I stand."
Till He returns or calls me home—
Imagine you.
Imagine you standing.
Alone.
Imagine all of your family gone.
Imagine all of your friends, every single one of them, gone.
Imagine your church, gone.
The hymns and songs you know so well, gone.
The pews or rows you sit in, near the familiar people you sit near on Sundays, gone.
The ministries you serve in, gone.
All the friends you get excited to catch up with after church, gone.
The people in your life group who spend hours praying over and with you, gone.
Even the grocery store you shop in, and the gym you workout in, gone, gone.
The school you drop your kids off at everyday, gone.
Your neighbors, gone.
The ceiling you gaze up at when you wake every morning, gone.
The skyline you've seen the sun set and rise for all of your life, gone.
You are still you, with nothing, seemingly nothing, that once surrounded you, and dare I say, what
used to make you who you are.
Who are you now?
Stripped of everyone and everything you know.
Who is that person?
You are alone.
Alone with nothing, but whole with the very One thing.
You are alone in Christ.
That is all of you.
That is you.
Christ in you.
"In Christ Alone, my hope is found;
He is my light, my strength, my song.
This cornerstone, this solid ground,
Firm through the fiercest drought and storm.
What heights of love, what depths of peace
When fears are stilled, when strivings cease
My Comforter, my All in All
Here in the love of Christ, I stand."
Moving has felt like this to me. I am not the first, nor the last to be uprooted by God. I know He is teaching me lessons and opening my eyes to see things, my non-Kansas resident eyes could never have seen or imagined. I am thankful. There are times in life where we are surrounded with people who point us towards God, who sharpen us, build into us, and stretch us to pursue and know our Lord in new and deeper ways. There are times that also, look much different. In all times, God is in pursuit of that girl, standing alone, who has shed it all for him. She awaits his purpose, his friendship, his voice. She waits because sometimes in the new and hard, there is silence. In the deafening silence, she knows there is nothing else for her, but him and him alone to meet her and her alone.
"No pow’r of hell, no scheme of man,
Can ever pluck me from His hand;Till He returns or calls me home—
Here in the pow’r of Christ I’ll stand.”
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