Loneliness in Suffering: Psalm 142
Loneliness in Suffering Psalm 142 Suffering is a wilderness experience. We feel very much alone and helpless, cut off from others who cannot know how we suffer. We long for someone to come to our aid, be “company” for us, get us out of this. Someone will. Some One will certainly come to our aid. He will be company for us if we’ll let Him. But get us out of it? Not necessarily. Elisabeth Elliot Loneliness. The word itself ushers in a sense of bleakness and desolation. Being without companionship. Feeling cut off from others. Having no meaningful relationships. Or perhaps the loss of someone dear and close leaves an emptiness no one else can fill. Suffering can bring its own sense of loneliness as it can seem, and may even be true, that no one can truly understand what we are experiencing and enduring with all its complexities and intricacies. David, here in Psalm 142, sits in a cave hiding from his enemies, and he says, “there is none who takes notice of me; no refuge remains to me; no ...