There is a great difference between being alone and being lonely. While being alone is a good and necessary thing at times, the state of perpetual loneliness can be very painful.
There are two kinds of loneliness: spiritual and relational.
1) Spiritual loneliness - an emptiness that results from separation from God.
Everyone is born with a void that cannot be filled with other people, relationships, possessions or achievements. Only God's love and grace is capable of abolishing the spiritual loneliness.
It was because God saw our separation from Him, that He sent Jesus to take our penalty away and take away our loneliness with it.
Isa 59:2 But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.
Jesus faced ultimate loneliness on the cross instead of us and felt the level of loneliness that the believers will never have to experience.
2) Relational loneliness - interpersonal loneliness that results from being isolated and alone. We may feel incomplete, inadequate and even alienated from others. But if you put God first and love your neighbors, coworkers, friends, relatives or whoever it might be, your loneliness will disappear. It is important though, to cure the spiritual loneliness first. Once we are at peace with God and our spiritual void is filled, we no longer have to use other people to fill that void. Because we separated our spiritual loneliness from the relational loneliness, we become enabled to build successful interpersonal relationships with other people.
Matthew 22:37-39 "Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself."
