IT IS NOT GOOD THAT THE MAN SHOULD BE ALONE
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First of all let me confess, yes, there was a time I really suffered from alcoholism and attacks of related outcomes like depression.
Let's get to the good book.
Genesis 2:18 (KJV): "And the LORD God said, IT IS NOT GOOD that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him."
For the first time during creation, I read God describe something as "NOT GOOD." Until this point, God has seen everything He has made as good or very good, including ADAM. Man/ human being 'being alone' is the only modification that God makes from His good creation, and He saw it from the moment he thought he was done with creation. AND HE DID SOMETHING- he made him an helper.
And I ask myself, how many people have I willingly left to be alone in their suffering as I watch yet I could do something to help? How many friends have we neglected in their aloneness of their sorrows but rather than help, we discuss them on their sidelines instead of doing something to give them company?
Genesis 2:18 (KJV): "And the LORD God said, IT IS NOT GOOD that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him."
For the first time during creation, I read God describe something as "NOT GOOD." Until this point, God has seen everything He has made as good or very good, including ADAM. Man/ human being 'being alone' is the only modification that God makes from His good creation, and He saw it from the moment he thought he was done with creation. AND HE DID SOMETHING- he made him an helper.
And I ask myself, how many people have I willingly left to be alone in their suffering as I watch yet I could do something to help? How many friends have we neglected in their aloneness of their sorrows but rather than help, we discuss them on their sidelines instead of doing something to give them company?
Ecclesiastes 4:12 says "Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken."
I remembered in those drunken stupor days how I used to suffer agony internally yet put on an okay face outside. Many many many people condemned me on the sides BUT very few did something that finally helped me break free from the bondage. They came through in my being alone in slavery from alcohol abuse and walked with me towards freedom.
I remembered in those drunken stupor days how I used to suffer agony internally yet put on an okay face outside. Many many many people condemned me on the sides BUT very few did something that finally helped me break free from the bondage. They came through in my being alone in slavery from alcohol abuse and walked with me towards freedom.
Today I want to speak to us who have friends, brothers, sisters, parents, employees, employers, relatives, neighbors, exes, church mates, college mates, housemates, spouses, workmates etc who are suffering from alcoholism or use hard drugs. (Kwanza saa hii imekuwa mbaya saidi, only that Covid-19 has obscured it). These people we look at as having no future. These people we find useless in our midst. These people who find courage to speak/shout in our family meetings whenever drunk, but never speak while sober. These people who must 'toa lock' daily to be able to function. The guy who knocks on your door every time he's stinking of the local brew but hides away when sober.
Good people, suffering from alcoholism is like being isolated inside a jail in an island. Alcoholism always has an invisible companion known as depression. Depression is like a vehicle full of graffiti written 'suicide' all over, in many cases. (I'm thankful to God that that is one thought that never passed through my mind but can attest that majority of sufferers think about this). Depression is the biggest companion of any alcoholic. Coming together with his children insomnia, fear, indecision, mild psychosis, hallucinations, etc depression can really take many shapes.
Good people, suffering from alcoholism is like being isolated inside a jail in an island. Alcoholism always has an invisible companion known as depression. Depression is like a vehicle full of graffiti written 'suicide' all over, in many cases. (I'm thankful to God that that is one thought that never passed through my mind but can attest that majority of sufferers think about this). Depression is the biggest companion of any alcoholic. Coming together with his children insomnia, fear, indecision, mild psychosis, hallucinations, etc depression can really take many shapes.
I appeal to us; let us not leave our loved ones to be given company by this monster known as depression, let us be the ones to come through as their deserved company. Who knows, your inviting them for dinner at your home could be the closest they'll ever be to their turning point. Your inviting them for a chat walk could be the only modification needed in their situation. Because IT IS NOT GOOD FOR THEM TO BE ALONE!
And if you've never tasted alcohol, pray, never taste. No one has ever become an alcoholic by staying away. Anyone who has ever tasted it is a potential alcoholic. We need God to be free indeed.
The good book says in Proverbs 27:17 thus "Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another."
Let us be each other's keepers especially at these moments when Covid-19 and it's Architects wants to change the nature and structure of life as God intended it. The nature of human interaction. The nature which we were used to socialize. Many people are suffering in silence.
Let us be each other's keepers especially at these moments when Covid-19 and it's Architects wants to change the nature and structure of life as God intended it. The nature of human interaction. The nature which we were used to socialize. Many people are suffering in silence.
A phone call or a word of encouragement can go a long way.
Peace ✌🏽
Peace ✌🏽
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