I’m Not Okay … But Jesus Is
Your Destiny is in Staying
Day 5
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This will probably be the most difficult day to get through, but there is a lot of wisdom and truth that is shared. Pray before you get started that you will receive what the Lord has for you today.
Summary
The Church needs to de-stigmatize mental health and suicide, but we also need to de-glamorize suicide. The enemy has a way of making everything horrible glamorous. There are two major ways this is happening
- The suicide contagion. When someone famous takes their life, the following months will see a massive rise in not only the rate of suicide but the same manner. It starts the lie that suicide is and can be a good thing.
- Suicide tells us that everyone will be better off when you're gone. That's glamorizing it. It's not better for you or anyone else if you take your own life. It's not God's purpose or plan for you. You may be free from your earthly pain, but you're going to trap all those around you in a different kind of pain for the rest of their lives. Those you love will be left behind to live their lives with guilt, questions, self-doubt, pain, and anger for as long as they live. And they will live knowing they weren't worth fighting for. They'll know intellectually that it wasn't really you that made that decision and it was actually the darkness, but it will be agonizing to their soul. Suicide doesn't alleviate pain. It multiplies it.
So, stay, even in the pain, and trust God to give you a miracle of another day.
What's Next?
Most people have been in the wake of someone who has died by suicide. Whether it was a dear relationship or someone you knew from afar, it always carries a pang of despair and pain with it.
Louie told the story of a man who decided not to end his life and completely turned his situation around by God's grace, but he also completely missed how his absence would have affected his wife. Have you ever thought about the other people involved? What their response would be? How the rest of their lives would play out because of this one act?
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