“就不住地为你们献上感谢。我祷告的时候，常常提到你们，”
以弗所书 1:16
“I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers.”
Ephesians 1:16
Long ago, a prisoner was neglected as he waited in prison. “Only Luke is with me,” wrote the apostle Paul to Timothy (2 Tim. 4:11). “No one came to my support, but everyone deserted me” (v. 16).
Yet Paul found encouragement even in prison, and he wrote, “The Lord stood at my side and gave me strength” (v. 17). But surely Paul felt the lonely ache of abandonment.
Throughout this coming year let’s reach out to the loneliest of our brothers and sisters.
What lonely people can I think of right now?
Newcomers to town? Prisoners? People in the hospital or in senior living centers? What can I do, no matter how small, to reach out to them?
Reach out in friendship and encourage the lonely.
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