Is God Lonely?

I've often pondered on the loneliness of God. It's a subject that's not specifically addressed in the Bible, but evidence of its existence does support it. One might ask, how could such a magnificent and intelligent Deity who lives forever be lonely, but I would strongly suggest that being in such a position of intelligence and living forever, could both isolate and intensify the loneliness unless there was a companion, and all of this certainly appears to be leading up to the desired companion - the Bride of Christ as stated repeatedly as being the Church and the New Jerusalem.

The first known written examples of God seeking dialog begin in the Book of Genesis in the Bible. If you remember, God created Adam and He said that Adam would need someone to keep him company because it wasn't good to be alone; therefore he created someone that Adam could communicate with on certain level that would satisfy Adam's loneliness. After all, why would God create such a perfect work to not complete Adam or understand him?  Adam came first and then God made woman out of a part of him and together they formed a team or unit that God could communicate with. Being that they were a part of each other originally, Adam and Eve would always be attracted back to each other and just like a couple of magnets certain men and women are drawn to each other, some more powerfully than others.

Is it too "human" to think that God could be lonely also; is it blasphemous to attempt and attribute human emotions and feelings to the Alpha and Omega? Do not forget that Genesis states that we (humans) were created from His image, therefore are we not emotional people and human to the degree that we sometimes are lonely? The concept of God having emotions is so deeply engraved into the Scriptures that there is no possible way to separate emotions from the Bible; however to say that God is lonely, we'd need to support that with evidence, but my thoughts are how many times throughout the Bible are we taught that God desires our prayers and our dialog, not just our obedience? God does most definitely desire to dialog with us on a daily basis and many of us desire something to fill that void we call loneliness. How can we ever be lonely if we had a good personal relationship with the King who created the universe? How could we ever be bored if we sought after His face through the creative and magnificent art He has created, the most powerful and magnificent of which being the heart? What human on this earth has ever created a painting as wonderfully complicated and colorful as the continually changing clouds and sunsets hovering in the western sky or a painting as welcoming as a beautiful sunrise after the darkest of nights? What artist on this planet could create such a beautiful star system or even come comparatively close to imagining such diversity in the animal and plant kingdom? I often feel sorry for those who think that all of this "just happened" in some sort of big bang, and almost as sorry for those who think that God couldn't create humans, animals and plants maneuvering in a world that continually adapts to ever changing environments.

The analogy of the Church and the New Jerusalem being the Bride of Christ is the example, as a marriage between a man and a woman (I'm trying my best to be politically correct here as you can tell) is the example of a great communion and lifelong partnership, yet the Church getting ready for the Bridegroom is the larger analogy of completion and a partnership for eternity.

Yes, God was communicating with Adam and Eve before they ate from the forbidden fruit, and afterward, and He has been trying to communicate and wishing for reciprocation ever since.

Is it possible to unwittingly pray for our own loneliness?  Solomon appears to do so when he prayed "Give your servant therefore an understanding mind to govern your people, that I may discern between good and evil, for who is able to govern this your great people?" (1 Kings) and God's answer to Solomon was "I now do according to your word.  Behold, I give you a wise and discerning mind, so that none like you has been before you and none like you shall arise after you".  And God also made another promise, that He would lengthen Solomon's days if he was obedient.   But Solomon wasn't obedient, and with his great wisdom, he desired communication to fill the emptiness and he sought out diversity through dialog with not one, but "700 wives, princesses and 300 hundred concubines" of different cultures and it turned out to be his downfall.  Wisdom brought him much loneliness.   If God created Eve to be Adam's helper and complete him, then surely there would have been just the one woman to complete Solomon, but if so, Solomon didn't wait on her.  He traded 1 good woman, who would have been perfect for him, for 1000 women.

What diverse and intensely intricate lines of dialog must the God of the Universe require in order to be satisfied from His loneliness; I can't even begin to imagine to what depths such a dialog would penetrate nor could I imagine the great emptiness that would accompany God's heart without such a deep communion.  What voids must exist without that dialog, to not be understood, to not have a partner that sees you for who you are.  You can only give parts of yourself to them because the rest they would not understand, could not understand, especially if they didn't even love you enough to try.

Oh Lord, I desire your communion and more and more wisdom and clarity, that I can understand on a deeper level what it is You would like for me to do in this short temporary life. Please Lord show me, teach me, strengthen me, then lead me down the trails of righteousness, of wisdom, strength, forgiveness and mercy, all at the same time as walking down the Trail of your Word and your will, in Jesus Christ's name I pray. Amen.