With Us in Our Loneliness | Audio Reading | Our Daily Bread Devotional | December 20, 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Never will I leave you. Never will I forsake you. Hebrews chapter 13 verse 5. |
| 0:08.6 | Welcome to this daily encouragement from our daily bread. With Us in Our Loneliness was written by Bill Crowder and read by Wes Ward. |
| 0:21.4 | Matthew chapter 1 verses 18 through 25. |
| 0:26.7 | This is how the birth of Jesus, the Messiah, came about. |
| 0:31.5 | His mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be pregnant through the |
| 0:39.2 | Holy Spirit. Because Joseph, her husband, was faithful to the law and yet did not want to expose her |
| 0:46.8 | to public disgrace. He had in mind to divorce her quietly. But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream |
| 0:58.1 | and said, Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in |
| 1:06.1 | her is from the Holy Spirit. She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name |
| 1:12.5 | Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins. All this took place to fulfill what the |
| 1:20.3 | Lord had said through the prophet. The Virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they |
| 1:26.6 | will call him Emmanuel, which means God with us. |
| 1:32.1 | When Joseph woke up, he did what the angel of the Lord had commanded him and took Mary home |
| 1:38.0 | as his wife, but he did not consummate their marriage until she gave birth to a son, and he gave him the name Jesus. |
| 1:50.9 | With Us in Our Loneliness, written by Bill Crowder. |
| 1:57.5 | Henry David Thoreau described a city as a place where many people are lonesome together. |
| 2:05.6 | Those words have the Ring of Truth. |
| 2:08.3 | In my youth, songs like Mr. Lonely, Only the Lonely, and Eleanor Rigby focused on isolation and loneliness. In recent years, the pandemic was one of the |
| 2:21.0 | most isolating seasons the world has known, and social media can feed that loneliness, giving |
| 2:28.1 | us connection without relationship. Perhaps loneliness is the new pandemic. As Matthew shared the story of the birth of |
| 2:37.2 | Jesus in Matthew chapter 1, he told us, all this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said |
| 2:44.0 | through the prophet Isaiah. The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him |
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