Are you overwhelmed? Whatever the cause, that should not be allowed to determine whether you will live or not. You don't know how precious you are to God as a living soul! God is not interested in your death. He has paid that price on the cross of calvary as explained in John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son for whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life". This is the point at which God Almighty demonstrated the peak of His love for us all. It caused God pains to redeem us. Therefore when He sees you passing through a painful period, He is not happy because he is not interested in your 'rushing' back to Him. Rather he wants you to live your life to the fullest, fulfilled and happy. That is what glorifies Him and that is what delights Him for only a living soul can praise the Lord moreso that He is not a God of the dead.
Satan has come to steal, kill and destroy. First he will still your joy either by exposing you to anything disgraceful. That is where you find a Pastor divorcing his wife, committing adultery, stealing church funds, engaginging homo-sexuality, etc. After doing that he would haves succeeded in killing him spiritually first. Then he will continue to misbehave until he is killed physically by either committing suicide or even committing murder so that there will be more than one deaths. After doing these, then when the Pastor is out of existence, then all his good works and the glory of God that had radiated around him are completely destroyed!
No situation in this world is so bad as to cause you to ever give thought to killing yourself! If you do, it means you do are far from God whereas God is nearer to you than anyone else. Are you a murderer, an adulterer, a prostitute, or are you born out of wedlock and is causing you shame? Have you embezzled your organisation's money and are being chased about by EFCC, ICPC, etc. Are you bankrupt? Or you owe people here and there such that you can no longer walk tall in the streets in broad day light? Are you a born-again student yet you are failing your examinations and is causing you shame? Are you faithful to your husband and he is repaying you with beatings? Is your wife causing you shame? Is your husband a disgrace? Is your child so bad that you wish he is dead to cover your shame? Have you had sexual relationship with more than one man, got pregnated and the two men denied paternity and is causing you shame? Have you snatched your supposed friend's husband or wife and the shame is torturing you? Is your case outside all these situations but all the same, more shameful?
I bet you, yes it may weary and break you down psychologically, yet none of them is enough to terminate your life because Jesus has taken away all these sorrows. And that is the essence of Easter in our lives.
Today, if only you will take a bold step, go to any Bible believing Church, confess your sins to JESUS (not to the Pastor!), accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and personal Saviour, you will be completely out of the bondage. All the
evil contemplation of 'ending everything' about your life will fizzle out and you will become a new person and your life will blossom again.
Good morning.
