To all those tired and weary, to those who follow God without regard for man's thoughts, it is to you I say these things. Take not the judgment of man upon your shoulders for God Himself will judge, nor take thought of their schemes for God alone is your hiding place. The more they persecute you the more your spirit recognizes God's presence, the more you feel alone the more you realize that you never can be. Take heart for even Jesus' friends thought they were alone in the world after His Crucifixion but look at this story and see if there are not parts familiar with your own. God will not leave you, even when you do not recognize Him, He is there.
Luke 24:13-34 GNB
(13) On that same day two of Jesus' followers were going to a village named Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem,
(14) and they were talking to each other about all the things that had happened.
(15) As they talked and discussed, Jesus himself drew near and walked along with them;
(16) they saw him, but somehow did not recognize him.
(17) Jesus said to them, "What are you talking about to each other, as you walk along?" They stood still, with sad faces.
(18) One of them, named Cleopas, asked him, "Are you the only visitor in Jerusalem who doesn't know the things that have been happening there these last few days?"
(19) "What things?" he asked. "The things that happened to Jesus of Nazareth," they answered. "This man was a prophet and was considered by God and by all the people to be powerful in everything he said and did.
(20) Our chief priests and rulers handed him over to be sentenced to death, and he was crucified.
(21) And we had hoped that he would be the one who was going to set Israel free! Besides all that, this is now the third day since it happened.
(22) Some of the women of our group surprised us; they went at dawn to the tomb,
(23) but could not find his body. They came back saying they had seen a vision of angels who told them that he is alive.
(24) Some of our group went to the tomb and found it exactly as the women had said, but they did not see him."
(25) Then Jesus said to them, "How foolish you are, how slow you are to believe everything the prophets said!
(26) Was it not necessary for the Messiah to suffer these things and then to enter his glory?"
(27) And Jesus explained to them what was said about himself in all the Scriptures, beginning with the books of Moses and the writings of all the prophets.
(28) As they came near the village to which they were going, Jesus acted as if he were going farther;
(29) but they held him back, saying, "Stay with us; the day is almost over and it is getting dark." So he went in to stay with them.
(30) He sat down to eat with them, took the bread, and said the blessing; then he broke the bread and gave it to them.
(31) Then their eyes were opened and they recognized him, but he disappeared from their sight.
(32) They said to each other, "Wasn't it like a fire burning in us when he talked to us on the road and explained the Scriptures to us?"
(33) They got up at once and went back to Jerusalem, where they found the eleven disciples gathered together with the others
(34) and saying, "The Lord is risen indeed! He has appeared to Simon!"
Even when you know you are guilty or partly to blame there is hope, look again at verse 20 “OUR chief priests and rulers handed him over...” and though some have faith you just can't see it, verse 23 “THEY came back saying they had seen a vision of angels...” But Jesus Himself comforts us even if while rebuking us for doubting what we have been told by the scriptures, verse 25 “How foolish you are, how slow you are to believe everything the prophets said!”. Then it happens the Holy Spirit reveals unto you that you really are not alone, verse 31 “THEN their eyes were opened and they recognized him...”. At that moment your heart fills once again with hope and you can't wait to tell someone!
