[Faith-talk] Fw: AWWY - "When You're Tired of Walking Alone" (#5521)

[Everett Gavel]

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Subject: AWWY - "When You're Tired of Walking Alone" 
(#5521)

Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - A Word With You
      When You're Tired of Walking Alone - #5521
      Monday, March 10, 2008




While I was speaking at a conference, our hosts gave my 
wife and me a picturesque cabin to stay in, right on 
the side of this beautiful mountain. I was unusually 
motivated to get my exercise there, because it involved 
hiking up this scenic mountain all the way to the top. 
As I headed back down and neared our cabin, I had this 
notion that it would be nice to make the last stretch a 
romantic walk with my honey. There's a song I used to 
whistle to her outside her dorm window when we were in 
college and we were engaged - a song we later had sung 
at our wedding. It starts with the words, "Because you 
come to me." Lapsing into romantic mode, I started 
whistling our song. Little did I know my wife wasn't 
there! No one came. I walked alone.

I'm Ron Hutchcraft and I want to have A Word With You 
today about "When You're Tired of Walking Alone."

Let's face it. Life is actually like that sometimes. 
There are times when you really want - you really 
need - someone to walk with you, and there's no one 
there. Either they won't or they can't. Sometimes 
people who care about us would like to walk with us 
through what we're going through, but they just can't; 
they don't understand, they don't know how to help, 
they're too busy with their own issues, or they're just 
not there for any one of a hundred reasons. Maybe as 
you're listening today, you're just tired of walking 
alone.

What I'm about to say may sound too good to be true, 
but I wouldn't offer you false hope. You don't ever 
have to walk alone again. The reason that is not just a 
hollow hope is because it doesn't depend on the love of 
some human who may be there or may not be. It depends 
on the love of the God who made you - who is always 
there.

Listen to the ironclad promise of Jesus Christ in 
Hebrews 13:5. It's our word for today from the Word of 
God. "Never will I leave you; never will I forsake 
you." He says never. He's offering you a "never leave 
you" love. Some of Jesus' last words on earth to those 
who belong to Him are these: "Surely I am with you 
always" (Matthew 28:20). After listing every 
conceivable force on earth, or in heaven, or in hell 
that might take His love away, Romans 8:39 says: 
"Nothing in all creation will be able to separate us 
from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord."

No loopholes. No conceivable situation in which you 
will find Jesus and His love not there. But 
experiencing His love isn't automatic. In fact, the 
Bible explains that the central reason for our 
loneliness and our aloneness is that we're living 
outside of God's love. We're like the earth deciding to 
leave the orbit it was created for, revolving around 
the sun, to just go off on its own. All life would 
cease, of course. We've decided to run our own life 
instead of living for the One who gave us our life, and 
we're out of the orbit we were created for. The Bible 
describes us as being "without hope and without God in 
the world" (Ephesians 2:12). Our loneliness is 
ultimately cosmic loneliness. We're lonely for God.

But He loves you so much He wasn't willing to lose you, 
so He sent Jesus. That's His one and only Son, and He 
sent Him to die for the sin that separates you from 
Him. So He could forgive you, so you could live in His 
love, so you could be in heaven with Him forever. And 
now that love is working inside your heart, drawing you 
His direction. This can't be a one-way love. You have 
to open up to what He died to give you, by telling Him 
that you're placing the rest of your life in His hands; 
hands that bear eternal evidence of His love for you. 
You can tell when you see the print of the nails there.

If you're ready to make that move, to finally 
experience this love you've spent your whole life 
looking for, would you tell Him that. And I hope you'll 
go to our website where I've tried to provide some 
simple information that will help you be sure that 
you've begun your relationship with Him; you can know 
you belong to Him. Would you go today to 
yoursforlife.net. It's helped a lot of other people. I 
think it will be an encouragement to you. Or if you'd 
like my booklet Yours For Life that has a lot of the 
same information, just call for it at 877-741-1200.

With Jesus in your life, will you ever feel lonely 
again? Sure you will. They'll be lonely times, but 
you'll never be alone again. You have His word on it.

To find out how you can begin a personal relationship 
with Jesus Christ, please visit: yoursforlife.net or 
call 1-888-966-7325.


 To find out how you can begin a personal relationship 
with Jesus Christ, please visit:

      http://www.yoursforlife.net/alpha or call 
1-888-966-7325.



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