HURT, PAIN AND SUICIDE

Lately I’ve had a tough topic weighing heavily on my heart. I have been praying consistently about it and asking the Lord to show me what it is that I am to do with this. I feel as if I am supposed to just share my heart on the topic and to be open to what the Lord brings my way. Suicide isn’t something that people like to talk about, but the fact of the matter is that it’s all around us and happens daily. We live in a fallen world and people are truly hurting but many of us are too busy to notice. I think sometimes we notice people hurting, but we are scared or don’t know what to do, so we do nothing. Sometimes we just don’t want to be bothered with helping someone else and we let them continue down the road of pain alone. I have struggled with depression off and on since I was young and have been told that I probably will for the rest of my life. Thankfully the Lord has given me some tools to use to help me handle different situations when they come. No matter how prepared I am sometimes the depression still gets ahold of me and I struggle. It wasn’t long ago that I went through another season of severe depression. It was the first time in a very long time that I felt so hurt and alone. It was hard because I knew that I wasn’t alone and I knew and believed the Truth’s that the Lord has given me, yet I still found myself stuck in the dark hole with no way out. I continued to go to church, work and went on with my daily life the best that I could. I did not want to do those things, but I knew that it’s what I needed to do. I hid my real feelings from just about everyone and nobody knew what I was going through, except for the few that I let know. My point in sharing that with you is to show you how the person right next to you could be hurting to the core and you may not even notice. After about the third week or this last depression I began look at the calendar and just cry. I didn’t know how I was going to get through the rest of the day, let alone another day. I didn’t want to die, but yet it felt like it was the only way to escape the pain that was covering my life. I can remember talking to a friend and saying, “one thing that is keeping me going is knowing that I’ve been here before and it’s not going to last forever.” What about the person that doesn’t know it’s going to get better? They see the dark and they don’t feel they have another way out. I challenge you to take time to look at the people in your life. Are there friends that you normally hear from often but haven’t heard from them much or seen them? Perhaps they need someone to talk to, but feel that nobody cares. There are many people that you come into contact with daily that just need someone to say hello to them or ask them how they are doing. I love the saying, “You may be the only Jesus someone sees.” You never really know how much impact you have on someone else’s life, so let’s make it a good one. John 3:16 says, for God so loved the world that He gave his only one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. God gave his son so that we can have eternal life… Will you give your time to help save someone else’s life?