The Lonely People

I was doing some "culturally relevant" music listening today and came across the song I love, Eleanor Rigby, by the Beatles. I always have liked songs like this because of their cultural accuracy. These artists sing about the scenes around them. They sing about their lives. Another more modern song I like is In the End by Linkin Park. Both of these songs show the people of our world lost and lonely. Read the words to Eleanor Rigby:

Eleanor Rigby

Ah, look at all the lonely people.
Ah, look at all the lonely people.
Eleanor Rigby picks up the rice in the church where a wedding has been,
Lives in a dream.
Waits at the window, wearing a face she keeps in a jar by the door,
Who is it for?
All the lonely people, where do they all come from?
All the lonely people, where do they all belong?
Father McKenzie, writing the words of a sermon that no-one will hear,
No-one comes near
Look at him working, darning his socks in the night when there’s nobody there,
What does he care?
All the lonely people, where do they all come from?
All the lonely people, where do they all belong?
Ah, look at all the lonely people.
Ah, look at all the lonely people.
Eleanor Rigby died in the church and was buried along with her name.
Nobody came.
Father McKenzie, wiping the dirt from his hands as he walks from the grave.
No-one was saved.
All the lonely people, where do they all come from?
All the lonely people, where do they all belong?

Isn't it amazing that the people we work with, the people we shop with, the people we drive past every day have nothing! They have nothing inside. They are lost and lonely people and will die lost and lonely people unless we reach out! The Linking Park song In the End, I spoke about earlier states,

I tried so hard
And got so far
But in the end
It doesn’t even matter
I had to fall
To lose it all
But in the end
It doesn't even matter

I just feel so compelled to talk to the lonely people. I feel compelled to help make their life matter in the end. Jesus tells us to go out and take the good news to them.

Luke 10:1-3

The Lord now chose seventy-two other disciples and sent them ahead in pairs to all the towns and places he planned to visit. 2 These were his instructions to them: “The harvest is great, but the workers are few. So pray to the Lord who is in charge of the harvest; ask him to send more workers into his fields. 3 Now go, and remember that I am sending you out as lambs among wolves.

Help me find the "Eleanor Rigby's" and give them Christ! As Casting Crowns puts it.....

Does anybody hear her? Can anybody see?
Or does anybody even know she's going down today
Under the shadow of our steeple
With all the lost and lonely people
Searching for the hope that's tucked away in you and me
Does anybody hear her? Can anybody see?