[:en]While most of us are happy celebrating Christmas, there are many lonely people during this season. Among them are prisoners who are being neglected.
When Paul was in jail, he felt the lonely ache of abandonment. He wrote to Timothy: “Only Luke is with me. No one came to my support, but everyone deserted me” (2 Tim. 4:11, 16). Yet he found encouragement in Christ when he wrote: “The Lord stood at my side and gave me strength” (v. 17)
To the lonely, let the Lord be your comfort and joy.
At the start of the year, may we begin to reach out to the loneliest of our brethren – prisoners, people in hospital, seniors living in centers, the orphans and widows, and those in grief. May we encourage the lonely and share the gospel to them.
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