What a beautiful picture of the Christians in the early church who sought all their consolation when in need in the Lord. How different alas so often from today, when even Christian people who know the Lord, when they are in any kind of trouble or distress need consolation and comfort from things around them. The counsel of the apostle in olden times, not only for the widow but for all of us, is that if we are lonely, we don't grizzle. If we are lonely, we are not to feel sorry for ourselves; if we are lonely, we are not to seek earthly solutions; if we are lonely, we have the most wonderful possibility imaginable. When we have deep needs, we can be cast upon the Lord. We can make our prayers and supplications to God, have fellowship with him, get our heads into the word, and prove the promises, move among the Lord's people, and immerse ourselves in the things of Christ and the work of Christ. That is the richest consolation we could possibly have.