On Suicide

What you won’t see in someone taking their life: taking their life in front of someone they sincerely love.

They won’t do it.

Because two things.

(1) They are too (honestly) selfish to value the feelings of those who actually really, really do care about them. (2) And they are too proud to tell them what is burdening them to the extent that they want to take their life.

It is selfish to assume that no one on the entire earth will miss you if you died. It is proud to be “too scared” to tell someone because you will “freak” them out.

Life does suck, but I believe you have enough life in you to change it than to escape it by your own hands.

One thing about wearing a mask is that it isn’t a face. You can take it off.

If you are scared what’s happening to you, don’t endure it alone: please tell someone you trust.

For Me, I trust Jesus. Not because He’s clique. But because I can’t see Him to attempt to hide myself, but He can see me and know that I am lying with my face.

It’s confronting, but it’s also relief. The relief comes because He says things like “I will give you rest”* and “I will never leave you”**.

This relief He offers is produced by His personal extravagant love.***

I do somewhat enjoy unable to see God Jesus, because as God, He already knows everything and everything about me so my masquerade with Him is pointless; But also as a man, He understands hurt, pain, depression, loneliness, rejection, isolation, peer pressure, apathy, etc.****

You may feel too weak to carry on with life, but you bulk immense strength not to leave life early at your own will.

Life is a War that is Fought with Will.

*Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. (Matthew 11:28 NKJV)

**For He Himself has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.” (Hebrews 13:5 NKJV)

***The Lord has appeared of old to me, saying: “Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love; Therefore with lovingkindness I have drawn you. (Jeremiah 31:3 NKJV) This also applies to you. Because God loves all of us, He has provided the “bridge” over His anger against your wrong for you to enjoy Him:
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. (John 3:16 NKJV)
Accept His free forgiveness of your sins by trusting that He did actually rid of them by dying as God on the cross for payment and coming back to life (Rom 3:23-26); And switch to His plan for your life (Rom 12:1-2)

****For in that He Himself has suffered, being tempted, He is able to aid those who are tempted. (Hebrews 2:18 NKJV)

iHeart My iPhone, But…

I love my iPhone. Let me correct myself: I REALLY love iPhone. It has so much eased my life in so many ways. But I’ve noticed how much it has hurt my time with my family.

1 Corinthians 10:23 says, “All things are lawful for me, but not all things are helpful; all things are lawful for me, but not all things edify”(NKJV).

My iPhone is not a sin (Hallelujah!), but doesn’t edify my family when it steals my attention from them.

Me VS the Will of God

The Lord’s angel appears to Zechariah to declare the birth of Zechariah’s son John whose mission will be to prepare men for the arrival of Christ. Zechariah in his old age doubted the angel’s word, and the angel punished him by making him unable to speak and hear:

“[Angel Gabriel to Zachariah] But behold, you will be mute and not able to speak until the day these things take place, because you did not believe my words which will be fulfilled in their own time.” Luke 1:20 (NKJV)

Do you ever find yourself questioning the will of God? However unusual to normal it may be to you, it is God’s design, and like Zechariah if you doubt God, He will restrain you if necessary to get you to acknowledge His will that He wants to accomplish with you.

Old Zechariah did not believe what the angel was saying, and by his own mouth he denied God’s power to give him a son at his old age. Because of this, God took his hearing and speaking away from him. It was only when John was born that he was able to speak and hear again. God took what hinder Zechariah from believing and used it to humble him and understand His plan.

God is the same with us today. Possibly, God may want you to serve someplace that would be least of interest to go. If we are resistant against His will, He may use bankruptcy, sickness or even a loss of a loved to move us to obey His will. We must understand that God is the final authority over our lives, and He determines our purpose. May we remember that.

Find Meaning by Calling God

Many people drift throught life, never tapping into the vast hidden purpose that God had arranged for them.

People by the numbers down history demand God to show Himself, but He already has.

Nature clearly points to a Divine presence. (Look up a study on eyelids and discover the complexity in its intelligent design).

Deep within our very souls we know there is something more to life than what we can see.

Life has a purpose and it’s found in God.

To understand life and how to live life purposefully is at our disposal. God said “Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.” -Jeremiah 33:3 (NKJV)

It’s in our seeking for God that we find out what is our purpose in life.