AVOID THE SUICIDE SYNDROME (Part 1)

AVOID THE SUICIDE SYNDROME

A fifty-five-year-old woman threw herself from her fourteenth-floor apartment to the ground below. Minutes before her death, she saw a workman washing the windows of a nearby building. She greeted him and smiled, and he smiled and said hello to her. When he turned his back, she jumped. On a very neat and orderly desk she had left this note: "I can’t endure one more day of this loneliness. My phone never rings! I never get letters! I don’t have any friends!" My family has deserted me”! My spouse has abandoned me’!

Another woman who lived just across the hall told reporters, "I wish I had known she felt so lonely. I’m lonesome myself."

The sample stories can go on and on and on and even more gruesome.

                                                                                                                                                                   

In our modern day, we often hear Christians say, "..my friend committed suicide, but I'm sure he was a Christian and is now in heaven with all his mental pain gone". Suicide has become a simple decision people take these days as a solution to their problems without thinking about the consequences. Christians are doing it, non-Christians are doing it. One might be forced to ask- What is happening to human beings in these last days? What on earth will cause a human being to kill her children and commit suicide herself?

Questioning

But is suicide really the pain-killer that so many Christians think it is, or is that just wishful thinking? The truth is, none of us can be absolutely sure that anyone (besides ourselves) is a true Christian. In our modern time, Churchianity is interpreted as Christianity. Despite our human desires and beliefs, exactly who is, and who is not a true Christian, only our Sovereign God knows for sure (1st Corinthians 3:12-13).

The sad fact is, there are a lot of pseudo-Christians, who think that merely professing Christ constitutes salvation. And that is the root of the problem.

The question we pause to ask and find some answers to is:

·       What is the Christians view of suicide and what does the bible say about suicide

·       What are some of the causes of suicide

·       How can we overcome the temptations of suicide

·       How to live a fulfilled Christian life in the midst of this uncertain, troubled world in order to avoid the thought of suicide.

What then is suicide?

There are even a few who argue that since the word suicide is not in the Bible, there is no law that speaks against it. In fact, the word "suicide" is from two Latin words. [sui], which means "oneself", and [cida], which means "to kill". In other words, killing oneself. So though the word itself may not be found in scripture, what the word represents is clearly found on the pages of scripture, and forbidden. Shedding man's blood in killing yourself intentionally is murder, which God strictly forbids. As in Exodus 20:13 -"Thou shalt not kill." Self murder is none the less murder!