Today’s Thought “All the Lonely People…” G. Ward

Micah 7

Woe to me! For I am Like harvests of summer fruit, like gleanings of grapes. There is not a cluster of grapes left to eat, nor an early fig, which I crave. ² The godly person has perished from the land, and there is no upright person among mankind. All of them lie in wait for bloodshed; Each of them hunts the other with a net.

I’m very versed on many musical genres and one favorite era involved one favorite group, The Beatles. They employed one song that stands out relative to our theme, “Eleanor Rigby” - it’s a song about loneliness and depression and its composer Paul McCartney said about the song: “I wrote Eleanor Rigby when I was living in London and had a piano in the basement and began to play chords and hum a melody to then think of a verse involving someone picking up rice after a wedding; taking it in that poignant direction, into a “lonely people” direction.

Here's what may be the spiritual corollary: As believers, we’ve been regarded as the bride of Christ (symbolizing a consummation, i.e., an intimate relationship) and while many are with refusal to allow HIS leading them similarly, sinfulness is more pronounced in this world (i.e., a kind of redundant behavior expressed by the picking up rice after our wedding with the KING). We’re certainly no greater than any (*Ro.3:10,23), but our mere hatred of who we were is preeminently perceived and that posture can be “lonely” – in that we desire others (indiscriminately) to come along (cf. Matt.9:36-37).