I Don’t Need Anyone

Loneliness floods my soul, as once again I find myself alone in a room full of Gods people.

He is enough.

I wonder about the lyrics, so let’s look at it from both sides.

I don’t want anyone else
I don’t need anything else
You are my one thing
You are my one thing
I don’t want anyone else
I don’t need anything else
You are my one thing
You are my one thing

Give Me Jesus, Upperroom

Until Unity looms over me.

In the Old Testament there are lots of lone wolves… I read somewhere that it’s characteristic of the Old Testament times… so tell me my reader… is that the case?

Articles found when researching with good ole Google

Link 1

Link 2 – wow! A slamming of the lone wolf… I get it though… someone who can’t be part of the church body is hurting. My own struggle is here in this department. Going to church is out of obedience to God’s word both in my heart, and in the pages of scripture. I don’t know if the writer here means it to come across that way but… it feels a bit like the cancel culture all around me… when you’re not living right and folks are quick with the knife to cut you loose…

Link 3 – here’s an interesting one! Look at this part:

Group-Think versus Independent Thought

Carolyn Henderson

She makes many good points. Focusing on that one up there. Each of us is alone with God, and yet in fellowship with one another.

It makes me think of what happened when Peter confronted Jesus, and Jesus response was that say,

Jesus Predicts His Death

²¹ From that time on Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life.

²² Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. “Never, Lord!” he said. “This shall never happen to you!”

²³ Jesus turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.”

Matthew 16:21-23

And when Paul confronted Peter about his hypocrisy in Galatians…