Looking for a Friend? Call on Jesus!

Looking for a Friend?  Call on Jesus!

This may sound like a misnomer since God even after creating Adam said, The Lord said, “It is not good for the man to be alone.  I will make a suitable partner for him.”  (Gn 2: 18).  So even in the beginning of humanity God knew man could not exist without companionship.   But today, with nearly 8.2 billion people across the globe there should not be loneliness in any person.  However, as I alluded before, the most lonely people are surrounded with friends, relatives, and even strangers walking by us every moment of our lives.

Loneliness is not an existence of separation, it can become a misunderstanding of what human contact means when a breath or touch from another person that might have more sustenance than many words that destruct human contact.  Take a married couple who have become at odds with each other and a moment of anger can develop into a blood-thirsty attitude that will be like world war III.  For many reasons that not many others can evaluate properly can only view a marriage that began with “I Do” now becomes $(&@x#^ and remember that. 

We are all living in a dimension of boundaries that threaten the peace and tranquility of too many people who exist in a commune of threats from personal inferences from each other and are corrupting the Chraistian ideals we once had.

That one person who is alone without a companion, in spite of being surrounded with great numbers of people, is seeking a reality of one like himself that will not turn a thought of love into an explosion of uncontrollable words that hurt more than sticks and stones.  Where is that entity that has a name and flesh and blood?  Jesus Christ!

Does this solve the problem of one human being finding himself alone in a crowd?  Remember, Jesus was once a divine person that assumed the human person of our world and when leaving to return to heaven, his humanity is still part of his existence.   Since Jesus Christ lives in an eternal kingdom without any past or future as humans hold onto, he still is a companion to anyone seeking his presence and therefore will have that closeness which is real and never leave our side, through his Holy Spirit that is a human contact.  

Jesus says: “I am the vine, you are the branches.  He who abides in me, and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.”  The fruit referred to in this saying is the holiness of a life made fruitful by union with Christ.  When we believe in Jesus Christ, partake of his mysteries, and keep his commandments, the Savior himself comes to love, in us, his Father and his brethren, our Father and our brethren.  His person becomes, through the Spirit, the living and interior rule of our activity.  “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.”  (CCC 2074).

Calling on Jesus Christ, even when needing human contact, you will find the person of Christ Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity within you and he will share your loneliness eternally.

Ralph B. Hathaw