Hi everyone it's Leslie Ludi host of the Set-A-G girl podcast biblical encouragement

for women of all ages in today's episode we're going to be talking about

loneliness if you've chosen to live a life that is set apart for Christ, then chances are you've experienced

loneliness or maybe the sense that people in your life don't always understand or support

the decisions that you're making.

Maybe you relate to the words of Psalm 7325 where the Psalmist says,

whom have I in heaven but you?

I know that in my own life, when I finally chose to radically follow Jesus Christ

I had to make a lot of really hard decisions. I had to pull away from friendships

that were steering me away from Jesus Christ. I did give up my pursuit of popularity

and a bustling social life so that I truly could build my life around Jesus

Christ and spend the amount of time that I needed at his feet.

So I went from a very intense swirling social life and having loads of friends that I was

constantly in contact with to suddenly feeling very alone, very isolated.

And yet that time of loneliness became the foundation for everything significant that God wanted to do in my life, including my love story

with Eric.

Some of the things that God taught me in that season of loneliness was first and foremost

how to find my satisfaction in Jesus Christ, how to turn to him

first without feeling that I always had to have another person to process all of my thoughts

and feelings with. I needed to learn to be content in him. I needed to learn how to be at peace without having a huge circle of friends around me or always being in a romantic relationship. And up to that time in my life I was not at

rest unless I was with my friends or I was in a romantic relationship. God was

telling me until you're satisfied in me and tell you're content and at peace

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