Charles Leiter once gave a sermon on the loneliness of Christ. Many saints, if not all, experience loneliness in the ministry, specifically in the area of doctrine. When God's grace establishes His Word as the foundation for a saint's life and that saint no longer looks to his own experiences and reasoning for wisdom but wishes that all his reasoning and interpretation of his experiences be conformed to the Word of God, he finds very few followers of Christ who understand that exactly to follow alongside. Praise God! that in these darkened days where there are no frequent visions of the LORD, He has provided the few thirsty saints with a fountain flowing from many pastors and evangelists such as John Piper, R. C. Sproul, and Paul Washer who have their messages available on the internet. Nevertheless, that falls short of fellowship; and if there is one thing that I often find myself wishing, it is that I could simply find others who are in the same situation.
Well, if you understand the loneliness of reformed believers in America today, you are not alone. I am with you; and yes, He is with us.
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