Here are some simple illustrations of the blessing which those find who look to Jesus in their loneliness.
An aged Christian was carried to a consumptives’ hospital to die. He had no relation or friend to be near him except the nurse and the doctor. Yet he always seemed bright and happy. The doctor, in talking with him one day, asked him how it was that he could be so resigned and cheerful? His reply was—“When I am able to think, I think of Jesus; and when I am not able to think of him, I know he is thinking of me.”
And this was just the way King David felt when he said, “I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me.”
“Not Alone.” Little Bessie was sitting on the piazza. The nurse came in and found her there. “Ah! Bessie dear, all alone in the dark,” said the nurse, “and yet not afraid?”
“No, indeed,” said little Bessie, “for I am not all alone. God is here. I look up and see the stars, and God seems to be looking down at me with his bright eyes.”
“To be sure,” said the nurse, “but God is up in the sky, and that is a great way off.”
“No,” said Bessie; “God is here too; sometimes He seems to be clasping me in his arms, and then I feel so happy.”
“The Help of Feeling Jesus Near.” There was a poor man in a hospital. He was just about to undergo a painful and dangerous operation. They laid him out ready, and the doctors were about to begin, when he asked them to wait a moment. “What shall we wait for?” was the inquiry of one of the doctors.
“Oh, wait a moment,” said he, “till I ask the Lord Jesus Christ to stand by my side. I know it will be dreadful hard to bear; but it will be such a comfort to think that Jesus is near me.”