It is not good for man to be alone...

In these last couple of days, i have been thinking, why is there a longing feeling in my heart? Why is it that i feel the need for someone or something else in my life to fulfill me?


I have been feeling a little lonely in the last couple of days and this led me to another train of thought which was 'is it okay to feel lonely as a christian?'. 'Does it show a lack of spiritual maturity because i'm lonely?'. Does it show weakness?


Why then did God say that it is 'not good for man to be alone...'?


God is all powerful and all knowing, that means that when He made Man, He knew beforehand that Man would be lonely. God placed longing in Man's heart to find completion outside of himself.


It is so amazing that this feeling of 'longing' is something that is specifically designed by God. Specifically made in us, that we would continue to be disgruntled and search for something outside of ourselves. Our inner longing to be complete leads us to God.


I know marriage in the bible is representative of a lot of things in the eternal perspective. I thought about how a marriage (to me) represents what it would feel like to be in God's presence, to be in heaven.


I think about the feeling that a person would have when they finally see their spouse again after being away for a long period of time. When they see that person, they are so full of joy. They run into their arms and embrace. They are 'complete' for that moment. What an awesome representation of heaven. I believe that when we get to heaven, it will be somewhat the same but so much better.


We would be coming to be with the One that we've been longing to be with. The person that we have been thinking of, writting and phoning, reading letters from them. There would be perfect love, perfect acceptence, we would be whole. We would be home...