Nobel Prize winner Czeslaw Milosz, wrote a poem entitled, “Study of Loneliness.” He describes sunrise splendor and asks for whom it was created.

“Yet it will be here long after I perish.
What is it in the eye of a lizard? Or when seen by a migrant bird?
If I am all mankind, are they themselves without me?
And he knew there was no use crying out, for none of them would save him.”

The poem ends on a note of hopelessness, and so it is for those who deny God and his gift of salvation. In another book of poetry, the Psalms, we see the answer to those who cry out in their loneliness.

“I waited patiently for the Lord and he inclined to me , and heard my cry.” Ps. 40:1

“Call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify Me.” Ps. 50:15

“As for me, I will call upon God, and the Lord shall save me. Evening and morning and at noon I will pray, and cry aloud, and He shall hear my voice.” Ps. 55: 16-17

Throughout life we experience loneliness and hopelessness, but we don’t have to be stuck there. When we cry out to God, we can be assured that he will hear and answer us. Expect it.