Wow! Young Christian men and women are certainly dwelling on deep theological issues! I'm impressed!
This ever-so-sensitive subject of suicide got me wondering as well ~ especially when I found a post by another young man on a Christian chat forum who sounds like he is only moments away from heading the wrong way down that one way road.
So, Sir Knight and friends, here's something more to wonder about . . .
If it's 'adultery' just to look upon a woman other than your wife and to imagine intimacy with her (remember when Jesus raised the bar in this NT conversation?) where do you think Jesus might set the bar in this case?
Wouldn't just 'contemplating suicide' be sinful in itself? It certainly doesn't make the list of things God commanded us to "think upon". [If you are not a Christian, you may be surprised to learn that there actually is a list of things we are commanded to think upon for our mental and emotional health!]
Taking a life that isn't yours (if you have promised it to Jesus for saving yours) or that God hasn't commanded you to take (as he sometimes did in the Old Testament) is overriding His perfect plans and purposes.
My adult daughters would be the first to tell you that it is not difficult, especially for women, to 'go down this lonely road in your heart and head when you are grieving deeply, feeling completely overwhelmed, or suffering tremendously physically.
I'm forever thankful that Jesus did not ask anyone in the crowed along His road to Calvary to put Him out of his incomparable and quite certain misery . . .
Aren't you?
This ever-so-sensitive subject of suicide got me wondering as well ~ especially when I found a post by another young man on a Christian chat forum who sounds like he is only moments away from heading the wrong way down that one way road.
So, Sir Knight and friends, here's something more to wonder about . . .
If it's 'adultery' just to look upon a woman other than your wife and to imagine intimacy with her (remember when Jesus raised the bar in this NT conversation?) where do you think Jesus might set the bar in this case?
Wouldn't just 'contemplating suicide' be sinful in itself? It certainly doesn't make the list of things God commanded us to "think upon". [If you are not a Christian, you may be surprised to learn that there actually is a list of things we are commanded to think upon for our mental and emotional health!]
Taking a life that isn't yours (if you have promised it to Jesus for saving yours) or that God hasn't commanded you to take (as he sometimes did in the Old Testament) is overriding His perfect plans and purposes.
My adult daughters would be the first to tell you that it is not difficult, especially for women, to 'go down this lonely road in your heart and head when you are grieving deeply, feeling completely overwhelmed, or suffering tremendously physically.
I'm forever thankful that Jesus did not ask anyone in the crowed along His road to Calvary to put Him out of his incomparable and quite certain misery . . .
Aren't you?
