A friend of mine was in a group of singles, with a bunch of other people. This friend made some very horrible choices and ended up with a legal record that was life changing, for the worse. The person served time in jail, was released and then had to try to face life. The person's child told them that they hated them and that night the person who felt so hopeless took their own life. I never knew that this person had taken their own life. When I was told this today, it broke my heart for the person's family and friends that were left behind...
To grieve, to hurt, to wonder, if there was anything that they did wrong to cause this person to make the choices in their life that led to such a heartbreaking ending. But the answer to that is no, you couldn't have changed that awful outcome, it was a choice that they made.
Notice that I left the gender of the person out of this story, deliberately, because there are many people who could say they know someone in this position.. perhaps they are there themselves.
Parents whose child is in a place of disaster, fearing for their demise, husbands or wives that are at the end of their rope and feel there is no way out, from a mess they are in.. a single person hoping to find "true love" only to be left standing alone day after day, kids who don't feel that anyone loves them and want to end their lives, people strung out on drugs with no where to turn to for help, homeless people, ( for whatever the reason), people who have lost their jobs due to the poor economy.
There are people who feel out of control in their lives, whether they feel overweight, underpaid, over worked, under appreciated, helpless and aggravated beyond repair. On and on this sadness prevails.
But I have an answer of Hope. I know where to go when the going gets tough and I have seen tough. I know whose arms are open wide, when my heart is broken into a million bits. I know who loves me when no one else seems to. I know who calls me by name when the world calls me everything but. I know who understands all the mixed up emotions that I am going through. I know the answer.
The answer is not drugs or booze, it's not an illicit affair or a child on the way that will "fix " the things that cause us to cry or weep. It's not a boyfriend or girlfriend, husband or wife that can cure us from loneliness or a cigarette that can take the edge off, it's nothing that we can put our hands on that can make the emptiness that we feel disappear into thin air.
Then what , you say. Well, here it is my friend, here it is...
You've heard that Jesus is the answer and that is true and the only truth. Jesus wants to heal your brokenness and give you beauty for ashes. He wants to restore all that the "locusts" have destroyed, (that's all the wrong things that have happened, to you or any one you know that is hurting) Jesus wants to fill you with happiness and give you a joy unspeakable, a peace that surpasses all understanding.
To some this is confusion. "If there really is a God, why would he allow such terrible things to occur? Take the life of a child so young, allow someone who is leading 1,000 people a year to Christ, to be taken in a drunk driving accident. Allow an innocent person to be placed on trial, convicted and serve time in prison for crimes they didn't and wouldn't ever commit. Why would God take the life of a four year old orphan girl that was adopted into a christian home where she would have been loved forever.
No one knows the answers to these and worse questions. But I do know that God is sovereign and one day we will know the answers and the reasons that the Lord allowed these things to occur. Why 911 happened. why a mother of four young children was taken in the middle of the night. Why God allowed a lot of crazy people to take the lives of innocent people.
Until then, we know that God is still in control and that He truly loves each and every one of us and longs that none should perish.
I think that people are afraid to turn their lives over to the Lord, because they are afraid that they will never be good enough for him or that they have to "fix" themselves up before they can go to Him.
Here's something everyone should know. There will never be anything that we can do that would be good enough to get us to the Lord. Our righteousness is as filthy rags to him.
Jesus paid it all on the cross for our sins ( anything we say think or do that displeases God) His blood flowed down from Calvary for you and for me.
But we have a choice to make. Will we accept the free gift of salvation, with no strings attached or will we continue to think that "we can handle this on our own. " Or I will make that decision later, when I'm older.
About the friend, that took their life... he had a choice to make and unfortunately made the wrong choice, but it is never to late to talk to the Lord and let him give you a fresh start in life.
I don't care if you think you're worst of the worst or God couldn't love you because you've been too bad...
God does love you and you only have to take one step back to him , he's waiting to save you and help you.
May you find the peace that you are looking for and the love that you so desperately need.
Take care and I'm here if you need to talk.
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