Have you ever been in a crowded room and felt completely alone? It’s as if life is moving around you, but you are completely still. Your life seems to be paused or moving in extreme slow motion. A part of you wants to scream and tell everyone to stop and see you there, frozen, but the biggest part of you is glad that no one notices. That way, you can just stay there and remain alone in your grief, pain, or sorrow unnoticed and uninterrupted.

However, you are mistaken if you think no one notices you and sees you there. Maybe no other human eyes perceive your sorrow or loneliness. Yet the eyes of the Lord are always watching you. To Him, you hold such value and worth that He truly sees to the very heart of you and looks upon you with eyes of love. He waits for you to look up and see Him, seeing you and loving you. Waiting for you to realize that you are not alone and that you never were.

Whether you are in a crowded room or all by yourself, He is always in the same place which is with you. He does not leave you or forsake you as scripture promises. He is waiting for you to notice his presence. Jesus wants you to know He is with you and he is for you. You are never forsaken, never abandoned, and never truly alone, no matter what you are feeling.

God is content to sit with you in your grief; He makes no demands that we are always happy and positive, he not only knows we feel sorrow he feels it with us. Scripture even acknowledges that sorrow and grief are a season, a time that we will all have, it is unavoidable in life. God is willing to just wait with us in our pain and gently comfort our hears, but He doesn’t want you to stay in that painful place forever.

Remember, it’s a season and it will pass. God promised to comfort the brokenhearted and bind up their wounds. Yes, there are wounds that take time to heal. His stripes weren’t just for our bodies or physical wounds; they were for our hearts too.

If you’re feeling frozen by something in life, feeling completely alone in the crowd, stop looking around at all the people who don’t see you, who can’t understand where you are and what you are feeling. Instead, look to the One who see you to the deepest part of you. The comfort people offer us pales in comparison to God’s comforting presence and the Holy Spirit. It’s the same with people’s love and attention. No on sees us, knows us, and loves us like Jesus does. He is with you always.. Look to Him and know the truth. The truth that you are never alone, no matter how you feel, no matter where you are, and you never will be.

Scriptures: Deuteronomy 31:6-8, Isaiah 41:10-14, Heb. 4:16, Psalms 139, Psalms 34:18-19, Luke 12:7, Eccl. 3:1-8