How Bible Principle Apply to Your Life - LONELINESS AND FEAR

Today the problem of loneliness, and of the depressing boredom that often comes with it, seems to be more widespread than every before.  In what way can an application of Bible principles aid people to overcome these problems?

 Basic to Christian living is association. Their way of life is to be useful and helpful to others. They are admonished to 'consider one another to incite love and fine works,  not forsaking the gathering  of themselves together.' (Hebrews 10:24, 25)   In regular association at congregation meeting several times a week they enjoy  fellowship with others who are interested in them, and even on other days  their Christian activity draws them close to their families and keeps them in touch/ with otehrs in the Christian congregation. The very nature of the work God gives Christians to do fills one with a sense of worth, bringing deep satisfaction.  Their bright hope  of God's righteous new world  fills them and overflows to others  around them.  In giving of themselves and sharing with others the good things they have learned from God's Word, they find happiness. For did not Jesus say: 'There is more happiness in giving than there is in receiving?"  (Acts 20:35)   As persons  who apply Bible principles, they are active, happy people.

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