I feel alone.  I’m not talking as much about being physically alone.  Of course, I’m seeing less people in person these days, but I am present with my family.  No that is not the type of aloneness I mean.  It’s feeling alone in my soul, in my inner person.  What is causing me anxiety is that I am often alone in my thoughts.  What help is there for me in this? 

The Holy Spirit who lives in me is faithful to remind me of God’s word.  “Where can I go from Your presence” the Psalmist asks.  The answer: nowhere.  I needed to hear this today.  I needed to hear that God is even aware of my thoughts and present with me in them.  The Apostle Paul speaks of taking “every thought captive to obey Christ” (2 Corinthians 10:5).  In myself I can’t always muster the strength to do that.  But the word can.  “How precious to me are your thoughts, O God!  How vast is the sum of them!  If I would count them, they are more than the sand.  I awake, and I am still with you” (Psalm 139:17-18).  

When we are feeling alone in our own thoughts, the best place for us to go is God’s thoughts.  To rest in what He says, and find that He has been with us all along.  May I encourage you today to mediate on Psalm 139:1-12.  Let the Lord show you that He is with you even in your thoughts. 

O Lord, you have searched me and known me!
You know when I sit down and when I rise up;
    you discern my thoughts from afar.
You search out my path and my lying down
    and are acquainted with all my ways.
Even before a word is on my tongue,
    behold, O Lord, you know it altogether.
You hem me in, behind and before,
    and lay your hand upon me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
    it is high; I cannot attain it.

Where shall I go from your Spirit?
    Or where shall I flee from your presence?
If I ascend to heaven, you are there!
    If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!
If I take the wings of the morning
    and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
even there your hand shall lead me,
    and your right hand shall hold me.
If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me,
    and the light about me be night,”
even the darkness is not dark to you;
    the night is bright as the day,
    for darkness is as light with you.