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The War Cry | APRIL 2013
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Admit your need
"For all have sinned and fall
short of the glory of God"
(Romans 3:23)
Believe in Christ
"Believe in the Lord Jesus,
and you will be saved"
(Acts 16:31)
Commit yourself to Christ
"Yet to all who received Him ... He gave
the right to become children of God"
(John 1:12)
Being truly sorry for your sins, and through the
power of Christ forsaking them, go for ward to live
for Christ. He will give forgiveness, power, victory,
purpose, the Holy Spirit and life eternal.
The next time you feel all alone,
there's
something you need to remember. You're not.
Now if I ended this conversation right here,
the statement would still be totally true and
it could stand on its own. But as humans, we
require more. We need proof. We need reassur-
ance--particularly when feelings of loneliness
seem to overwhelm us.
So here is the further truth: It takes cour-
age to survive loneliness. Some may ask, "How
can that be?" After all, what does courage have
to do with loneliness?
I've come to the lonely conclusion that it
often takes a lot of courage just to get out of bed
every morning. I honestly don't know how some
people do it.
There's a scene in the television mini-se-
ries, Hatfields & McCoys, which comes to my
mind. Anse Hatfield (Kevin Costner) holds a
gun to the forehead of a McCoy man, advising
him to "drop to your knees and pray."
The McCoy man bravely responds, "I bend
my knee to no man and I pray only to God!"
Hatfield pauses and lowers his pistol. "You
have a lot of courage," he tells him. As Hatfield
spared his life, this McCoy found that he wasn't
alone after all--even in the face of what ap-
peared to be certain death.
The Apostle John twice came to the heart�
soaring realization that he was never alone--
even while in exile on the Isle of Patmos for
several long, lonely years.
Two scripture verses in Revelation (19:10
and 22:9) tell us that John was so overwhelmed
by the glorious visions he beheld that both times
he fell to his knees at the feet of the angels ap-
pearing in front of him. The angels' swift rebuke
is that only God is to be worshipped, and that
angels are nothing more than "the Lord's fellow
servants along with us."
Did you catch that? We are not alone, after
all.
No matter your lonely trial today, God's
angels are ministering alongside of you. You
may feel all alone, but once you put your com-
plete trust in Christ and believe fully in His
amazing grace, could you ever again be alone
in this life? Hardly.
Coming
Home
............
by
MAJOR FRANK DURACHER
Major Frank
Duracher
is Divisional
Secretary
for The Salvation
Army in Maryland
and West Virginia.
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