But there is another sense in which it is even more terrible to be alone. All men born into this world are alone spiritually because they are ‘without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world’ (Ephesians 2:12). Without Christ, man has no one to deliver him from his sin, no one that he can turn to in his deepest troubles. When close relatives die, when he is near death himself or when he does finally depart from this world, who understands the motions of his inner being but the Lord? The thought that his fellow man can help him in this situation is a piece of self-deception, for though friends offer their help, they cannot read our hearts as the Lord does. They cannot share what we are going through, but Christ can. Those going through the deep storms of life know that human resources can only help a little. In this sense every worldling is alone. But rather than face this solemn truth, man shuts his eyes and lives for today, hoping that tomorrow will never come. ‘Let these enemies cease to exist’, but they do exist and man cannot hide from them.