This feeling describes the emotion of loneliness. Other words people use to describe loneliness include feeling empty, isolated, excluded or left out.

You can feel lonely when you are physically alone and you can also feel lonely in the presence of others. Loneliness is really a reflection of whether or not you feel connected to others.

God is a God of relationship and community. That is evident in His very nature. He is the Trinity — three in one; God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Ghost

In the opening chapters of the Bible, God established that “It’s not good for the man [Adam] to be alone…”

His solution? God made  a companion.”  He brought Eve to Adam and they “become one flesh.”  We are designed to be in community with God and with one another. Perhaps that is why loneliness hits us the way it does.

The Bible has a lot to say about feeling lonely and its opposite, feeling connected. But before we get to that, let’s take a closer look at loneliness and the effect it has on us.

It may be clear to you that you feel lonely—you long to feel connected to others, even to be held. But what if it’s not obvious?

Depending on the situation, signs of an underlying state of loneliness may include the following:

• Feeling bored and/or excessively tired
• Feeling helpless and threatened
• Not sleeping well
• Being physically inactive (including not exercising)

While it’s normal to feel lonely from time to time, ongoing loneliness triggers stress that is so potent it affects everyday life. A person may feel tired and lethargic, and less mentally alert. He or she may experience stomach and digestive problems, and other incidents of sickness and disease.

Because people who experience ongoing loneliness don’t feel well, they frequently engage in behaviors or ingest substances that make them temporarily feel better or numb the pain.

The danger is that many of these substances and behaviors are addictive. Common addictions include alcohol, drugs, tobacco, eating, exercise, media (including television, internet, and smartphone use),

In discussions about loneliness, boredom and depression often come up. Feeling bored and feeling lonely are closely related. In both instances, you feel disengaged from tasks (i.e. boredom) and/or people (i.e. loneliness). Depression, though distinct, frequently follows and is co-existent with loneliness as the person who is depressed will often withdraw from engaging with others.

God’s people are not exempt from the pain of loneliness. God’s prophets often felt the pain of rejection and loneliness.

Scripture tells us that Jesus experienced loneliness. On the cross,

[Matthew 27:50]

And about the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? (That is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

And in Isaiah 53:3, a prophecy about Jesus,

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.

Jesus can empathize with the pain of loneliness because he experienced it.

Throughout the Bible, we see that a connection with God and other followers of Jesus is good and desirable, and preferable to being isolated and alone.

[Matthew 18:20]

For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them

Speaking to the effects on a person’s work and enjoyment of life when we are not connected with others, King Solomon observed:

[Ecclesiastes 4:7-12]

4:7 Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.

4:8 There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother; yet is there no end of all his labor; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labor, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.

4:9 Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labor.

4:10 For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.

4:11 Again, if two lie together, then they have heat; but how can one be warm alone?

4:12 And if one prevail against him two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

In Ephesians 4:25-27, Paul conveyed a sense of urgency about repairing broken relationships so that we are not alone and weak, thereby giving Satan a foothold to attack the Body of Christ. These and many other verses communicate the message that

Together we have greater support and strength to resist temptation and idols

Reading the scriptures  can be  a source of comfort. Gods message  timeless and perfect for all time and it will and can help anyone who feels lonely to feel more connect to a god that Love you for who you are not for whio the world asks you to be to conform and make others feel comfortable. ,

The foundation, God’s Word reminds us that, despite our loneliness telling us that we are alone, as His beloved children, we are never alone.

So when you’re sad and lonely, or when you feel so alone, remember that God is with you always and he is there to listen, help and support.  The more you open your heart to him the less alone you will feel.