Christ’s Companionship for the Lonely
BUT some have not so precious a privilege as the two-or-three meeting. They are alone. The cleaver of truth has separated them from very friends and dear associations. There is not one with whom they can unite in prayer. Is there no promise to such?—Yes; one still more precious than the promise to two or three: “If any man hear My voice, and open the door [of his heart], I will come into him, and will sup with him, and he with Me.” Rev. 3:20. They are the words of the same precious Saviour, Helper, Friend. Precious promises to the “little flock,” scattered among strangers! Precious promises to the earnest and persevering who are living in the midst of deadly Laodicean apathy and lukewarmness and blindness! All alone thou mayest be for the truth’s sake, Christian pilgrim, but the promise of Christ’s companionship is thine. If any man, if any one—it includes thee, youthful soldier in the battle of life; it includes thee, tired and care-worn mother; it includes all; it includes anyone who will open the heart’s door, cast from thence the rubbish of worldliness, sin, and unbelief, and invite his Redeemer in. The multitude may not partake with thee, but thy Guest is more than they all.