Alone... but with God!

Most religious people live in a sort of treadmill life, where they can calculate almost everything that will happen, but the souls that God leads out into immediate and special dealings, He shuts in where all they know is that God has hold of them, and is dealing with them, and their expectation is from Him alone.
Like this...we must be detached form outward things and attached inwardly to the Lord alone in order to see His wonders.

In the sorest trials God often makes the sweetest discoveries of Himself.

God sometimes shuts the door and shuts us in,                                               That He may speak, perchance through grief or pain,                                        And softly, heart to heart, above the din,                                                           May tell some precious thought to us again. 

                                           -- Streams in the Desert, by Mrs. Charles E. Cowman