Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Thursday, July 24th.

Many people think loneliness simply means being alone, but that's not always the case.

Today, you'll learn about this powerful emotion and how you can be free from its grip.

Loneliness is one of the most painful experiences of life. It is a pressure of life

with which many of you have to deal, and all of us have had to deal with it at some point,

probably, in our life. There's someone you've lived with for years and years and years. You've

loved them and they love you, and all of a sudden, death is final and it's all over.

And you know that until you get to heaven, you'll never see them again. That can create awesome

loneliness. Then there is divorce. You have two people who love each other, have a great

sense of intimacy with each other,

and their object of their attention, their focus is on the one person.

All of their world was wrapped up in that person.

And suddenly their world came apart.

I want to remind you of something.

If your world is any person in anything but the person of Jesus Christ, you're going to get disappointed.

People that God sends into your life and my life, our husbands and wives and children

are as absolutely essential as they are, they still cannot be our world.

Jesus and Jesus alone can satisfy the hunger and the thirst of a human heart.

Do you know one of the primary reasons that so many people are lonely, and this is why it's

so subtle.

They say, well, you know, I'm married to my wife or my husband, and we get along, and

we've got wonderful children, and yet deep done inside oftentimes

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