It is NOT good for us to be... alone

I recently read a wonderful article on Practical Theology for Women called It isn't good to be alone. I am newly single and I have many friends who are single as well. There is an intense longing the human heart has for companionship. We don't want to be alone.

Genesis 2:18

 ¹⁸ Then the LORD God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; ^(A)I will make him a helper fit for him.”


We don't want to be alone. God did not design us to be alone. So why does God allow us to be alone? I recently read The Meaning of Marriage by Timothy Keller. It was written based off a series of sermons preached to a church that was 80% single. It is not a book just written for married couples who want to make their lives better or single teenage girl who are dreaming about their future husband. This is a book that discusses marriage from a bible stand point. Within the book it discusses how our modern culture approaches marriage, how we used to view marriage, and the consequences of each view. I encourage those who are single and hurting to read these two resources. Another thing that has been a great comfort to my soul is Psalm 139. Sarah Reeves reads this Psalm with the passion that my heart need to hear it with. 

Psalm 139

For the director of music. Of David. A psalm. ¹ You have searched me, LORD,
   and you know me.
² You know when I sit and when I rise;
   you perceive my thoughts from afar.
³ You discern my going out and my lying down;
   you are familiar with all my ways.
⁴ Before a word is on my tongue
   you, LORD, know it completely.
⁵ You hem me in behind and before,
   and you lay your hand upon me.
⁶ Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
   too lofty for me to attain.
 ⁷ Where can I go from your Spirit?
   Where can I flee from your presence?
⁸ If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
   if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
⁹ If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
   if I settle on the far side of the sea,
¹⁰ even there your hand will guide me,
   your right hand will hold me fast.
¹¹ If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me
   and the light become night around me,”
¹² even the darkness will not be dark to you;
   the night will shine like the day,
   for darkness is as light to you.
 ¹³ For you created my inmost being;
   you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
¹⁴ I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
   your works are wonderful,
   I know that full well.
¹⁵ My frame was not hidden from you
   when I was made in the secret place,
   when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
¹⁶ Your eyes saw my unformed body;
   all the days ordained for me were written in your book
   before one of them came to be.
¹⁷ How precious to me are your thoughts,^[a] God!
   How vast is the sum of them!
¹⁸ Were I to count them,
   they would outnumber the grains of sand—
   when I awake, I am still with you.
 ¹⁹ If only you, God, would slay the wicked!
   Away from me, you who are bloodthirsty!
²⁰ They speak of you with evil intent;
   your adversaries misuse your name.
²¹ Do I not hate those who hate you, LORD,
   and abhor those who are in rebellion against you?
²² I have nothing but hatred for them;
   I count them my enemies.
²³ Search me, God, and know my heart;
   test me and know my anxious thoughts.
²⁴ See if there is any offensive way in me,
   and lead me in the way everlasting.