Recently I was transported to the same feeling of loneliness when I was 17 years old. I was working in an office then as a Girl Friday, so during lunch time I would roamed around the mall at the subway in Raffles Place Station. I felt alone as a child in some situations, but this memory of loneliness was still vivid even after so many decades.
Loneliness is a state of mind. We can be in a crowd like me roaming at the subway station. Or with my best girlfriends, of even now with my own family and still feel so lonely inside.
I felt so transported back in the spirit to that moment when I was 17. I could see the crowd, hear the boyband 911’s song playing in the background. I knew even then at that sad moment that God was beside me, but now, I know that God is in me. I could feel the same loneliness He felt at the cross. Jesus abandoned, left alone, separated from God. Because there was no other way to accomplished His Finished work. He so desires closeness with us, more then we with Him.