Proverbs 14:10 Understanding Loneliness

Understanding Loneliness

Proverbs 14:10 NKJV

The heart knows its own bitterness, And a stranger does not share its joy.

"No one can fully share the joys and know the sorrows of another human being. No one has experienced your life exactly as you have." Keller

What does that mean with regards to wisdom?

Outside:

You can never be completely assured that you can absolutely predict of understand the behavior of another person.You can guess motives wrongly.

Inside:

Remember, no one can read your mind."If you don't want to be terribly lonely, you will have to open your heart and reveal yourself." Keller

Conclusion:

Only the Lord can know all the thoughts of the heart.

(NKJV)

“For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.”

God knows your thoughts better than you do.

God knows your thoughts better than you do.

(NKJV)

9 “The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked; Who can know it?

10 I, the Lord, search the heart, I test the mind, Even to give every man according to his ways, According to the fruit of his doings.

(NKJV)

2 Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, But the Lord weighs the hearts.

Friendship needs:

"Though we all need human friendship, it will not replace true friendship with God." Keller

(NKJV)

4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,

I will fear no evil;

For You are with me;

Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.

(NKJV)

4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; For You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.

Question:

Can you say that you enjoy friendship with God? Why or why not?