You can be surrounded by people 24/7 and still feel lonely, but the Bible says a lot about loneliness and how we are never truly alone if we believe. God is always there for us no matter what. He stands by our side, even when we cannot feel Him. As people, we just want to feel loved, and when we don’t feel loved we can make some bad decisions. Yet, if we look to God to feel that love, we will always find it and know we are not alone.
There is a difference between aloneness and loneliness. Alone means you are by yourself in a physical sense. There is no one there with you. It can be a good thing when you want some peace and quiet or a bad thing when you’re alone in a dark, dangerous alley…but either way, it’s physical. However, loneliness is a state of mind. It’s a feeling of having no one to turn to, having no one who loves you…and can easily become a state of despair. Loneliness can be experienced when we’re alone or when we are completely surrounded by people. It is very internal.

Isaiah – 53:3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

How to Handle Loneliness
Everyone experiences loneliness from time to time. It’s a natural feeling. Yet, we often forget the proper response to feeling lonely, which is to turn to God.

God is always there. He understands our need for friendship and fellowship. Throughout the Bible, we are reminded of our responsibilities to one another, so it is not surprising that we get lonely when we have a lack of connection to other people.

So when loneliness starts to creep in on us, we need to first turn to God. He gets it. He can be our comfort in those transition times. He may use the time to build your character. He may strengthen you in times when you feel completely alone. Yet, it is God that will build us up and be beside us in these times of deep loneliness.

It’s important during times of loneliness that we turn to God and away from ourselves. Loneliness can just be compounded by always thinking of ourselves first.

Psalm  62:8 Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him; God is a refuge for us. Selah

Deuteronomy 31:6 Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them; for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.