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Suicide
April 5th, 2008
Recently a young man in our church youth group committed suicide, despite the best efforts of the youth group leaders and the teenagers who loved him. He gave up on life when his home life became unbearable; his father having already committed suicide and his mother a drug addict. In hopes that this post will be seen by someone who is considering this solution to their overwhelming difficulties, I am going to share with you what I never shared with this young man.
About 14 years ago, I was caught up in sin. The nature of the sin isn’t really relevant to the discussion. I was breaking one of the Ten Commandments, and as a born-again Christian, I was swimming in guilt, and fear of being found out. I found I could not escape my sin nor my guilt, and suicide seemed like the only answer. I considered several methods, and one night I decided upon which method I would use.
The next day at work, I was sitting in my cubicle, and felt compelled to pull out the small Bible that I kept in a desk drawer. I opened it, and it fell open to 1 Corinthians, chapter 6. Immediately my eyes fell upon verses 19 and 20:
‘Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God? You are not your own; you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body’.
There was not the slightest doubt in my mind that this was God speaking to me about my plan. And it was the last time I have ever considered suicide as the way out of my problems, and it was the point at which I broke free of the sin that had me in its grip.
April 5th, 2008 at 11:37 am
Correction: It was 24 years ago, not 14. My math is not improving with age!
April 6th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
Wow, you see. God can even speak to you thru this !
April 11th, 2008 at 7:31 am
Amazing testimony. Thank you for sharing this.
April 22nd, 2008 at 4:16 am
Wow. That is amazing. It so awesome how God Loves and Cares for us so much. Praise the Lord-Richard
April 22nd, 2008 at 4:08 pm
hi richard you know it is so awesome how god loves and cares for us. and i know everything that was taken from me god will give it back.my testimony also is letting you know how god just wants to test us to see how much faith we have and sometimes he will let us stumble in order to get our attention. god bless you!!!!!!!!
April 25th, 2008 at 2:39 am
I am glad things worked out for you.
April 25th, 2008 at 11:36 pm
Since that time, I have hurt some people so much that they probably would rather I had proceeded with my plan, and I can’t fault them for that. I just finished reading John Newton’s biography (the former slave ship captain who later wrote the hymn ‘Amazing Grace’), and he had something to say to himself in his latter years (and to those of us who can’t forget what we have done). Above his fireplace were these scriptures: “Since thou wast precious in my sight thou hast been honorable. But thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondsman in Egypt, and the Lord thy God redeemed thee”. The first verse is from Isaiah, and the second from Deuteronomy.
May 6th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
we serve a wonderful God, one who cares about us regadless of what we think of our selves.i thank God he saved you.and pray that your testimony might help save others out there as well