suicide

Suicide is the supreme act of selfishness and unbelief.  It is the deadly fruit of self-obsession and self-pity.  No one comes to commit suicide hastily.  The will to live is very strong; God made it so.  The light of life in the soul is not easily extinguished.  No one should feel sorry for those who choose to end their own life by suicide.  Suicide is murder in the first degree.


Everyone, at some point in his or her lifetime, will be confronted with thoughts of suicide.  That's just the way the devil is: He kicks people the hardest when they're down ~ and sooner or later everyone has hard times.  Life in the world is fraught with trouble.  Jesus himself said, "In the world ye shall have tribulation..." (John 16:33).  Ye shall have; it's a given.  But Jesus preceded those words with these: "These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace."  Might have.  Shall have tribulation; might have peace.  But that peace is "in me", that is, in Jesus.  No, devil, it does not mean that one will have peace in Jesus after hanging or shooting or poisoning herself.

"Might have peace..."  "In me."  That means that peace is available in Christ Jesus.  But you're going to have to come to him to receive it.  And he made this promise: "Him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out" (John 6:37).  There is then no excuse.  For, Jesus himself promised that he will not ~ for any reason ~ cast out anyone who will come to him, in truth, seeking help.

Is God not able and willing to help?  "God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble" (Psalm 46:1).  There is no excuse.

Above, I wrote that suicide is "the supreme act of . . . unbelief".  So it is.  Those who choose to kill themselves do not believe the Word of God.  They do not believe that God is able, or that he is willing, to help them, to deliver them from suffering, and give them peace and joy.  They do not believe the claims of Jesus Christ, who plainly said: "The thief [the devil] cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and have it more abundantly" (John 10:10).

I also wrote, above, that suicide is "the supreme act of selfishness. It is the deadly fruit of self-obsession and self-pity".  The devil cannot quickly come to possess one's mind so completely as to bring an individual to be consumed with thoughts of himself.  It takes time for the devil to sow seeds of self-pity or self-contempt; it takes even more time for those poisonous seeds to sprout and grow up and entangle one's mind.  All the while, such persons ~ who may ultimately be overtaken by thoughts of suicide ((for, murder is always the devil's endgame: "Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do.  He was a murderer from the beginning..." (John 8:44)")); all the while, I say, that such persons are giving themselves over to listen to the devil's lies, at the same time they are not giving themselves to seek unto the Lord for his truth.

The devil tempts his victims to suppose they will then be truly loved and missed ~ but only, if they will actually kill themselves; or, that those left behind (still living) will, by the death of the suicide victim, thus be punished for the way they treated the poor victim of suicide.  "See! this is what you did to me!"  All such thoughts are lies.  Selfish lies.

Too, the devil will suggest the idea that one's own children will be alright without their (suicidal) parent ~ indeed, that those children's love for their (deceased) parent will burn like an eternal flame in the memory of those children.  Lies.  Selfish lies.

I once heard Charles Stanley ~ a man supposed by very many to be a man of God and a teacher of the Word, say that a person can commit suicide and still go to heaven.  "Though by so doing, you are cheating yourself out of God's best for your life," Stanley said (very nearly a quote).  What a hateful, damnable lie!

Suicide is a true pandemic in the world today.  Hopelessness and despair is the dark abyss that consumes multitudes of unhappy souls, day after day after day after day....   Where is the Light of truth?  The Apostasy has darkened the pulpits of America.  Where is the Light of love?  False teachers and preachers have deceived their congregations with the gospel of selfish ambition and pleasure seeking.  Where is the Light of hope?  The Spirit of God has been often repulsed and grieved.

But God.  "If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself" (2 Timothy 2:13).  What does that mean?  It means that God ~ who never changes, for ever stands by his own Word.  Though we may falter and fail, because of our weakness and unbelief; yet, God stands by his Word: He is ever ready to do all that he said he will do.  "Him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out".  In other words, we can depend upon God.  The gross and awful treachery of the backslidden, professing Church notwithstanding: God is still God; Jesus Christ is still the Savior of all who come to him.

The only crying and weeping there will be in eternity, shall be the "wailing and gnashing of teeth" of those in hell.  Whereas, in heaven God will "wipe away every tear" from the eyes of his beloved.  Every tear.  No one will then be crying for the lost.

Do you, really, want to kill yourself?  Of course, you do not; you want to live and be happy.  That's exactly what God wants for you, too.  "Oh! but no one understands my suffering!"  God understands.  The cross of Christ was awfully real.  God has made the way of deliverance.  The Spirit of God is "a very present help in trouble".  God is well able and willing to save and to keep you.  I know.