Suicide- telling Mom and Dad
goodbye forever
No
one but you knows the traumatic emotions you are going through to cause you to
think about ending it all. The tough part is telling Mom and/or Dad goodbye.
You love them. Well, why leave them to spend the rest of their life grieving
over you if you love them? They will
remember you the rest of their life, but NOT the good part. They will remember
the rope, the closet, the knife, the overdose, the gun- their son or daughter
dead when they got home. Is that how you want them to remember you for the rest
of their life? How about your brother or sister, grandparents, friends? A
tragic, useless, suicide? They love you, and let me talk for them for just a
second, because
my
son committed suicide. I can tell you how it feels. When a father buries his
son he buries his heart. I will never get over it. He did not have to die.
Jesus died for him.
You
do not have to die. Jesus died for you. If you are your father's or mother's friend or not, do not kill
yourself.
We
pray that you will find appropriate help and comfort from the Scriptures. and
CALL 911 NOW.
God
loves you and so do we.
Don
and Minnie Giddens
1.
Jesus died for our sins[i]- all of them. If Jesus died
for them you do not have to make yourself pay for them by taking your own life.
Instead, let it go, and accept God's forgiveness when you admit your guilt[ii].
Accept His forgiveness. You know He will never remember them any more. The
alternative is to not forgive yourself, not to accept His offer of forgiveness
by dying for that sin, and facing Him at the judgment and God who will ask the
question, "Why? I sent my Son to die for your sin." You rejected Him,
and rejected me.
2.
Jesus died for our sorrows. We sometimes glory in the
valleys[iii],
and have been accustomed to carrying our pain so long we want to keep on. Our
sin is something we think demands a lifetime wallow in sorrow and depression.
You do not have to pay for your sin by dying. You do not pay for your sin by
sorrow. Jesus carried our sorrows on the cross. Every lash on His back was for
your sorrow. Every brutal blow was because for your sorrow. So, my friend, let
go, and let Jesus carry every tear. Every howling accusation leveled at Jesus
was for you sin. He paid it all.
3.
He arose victorious over sin and death. Do you think when He
came out of the tomb He was still carrying your sin and sorrow? Of course not:
He left it all in the tomb. Removed it as far as the East is from the West,
never to remember it again!
Our sins are gone. Our
grieving has been done. We won. Jesus won for us.
Suppose you were convicted to the electric chair for
murder. Guilty. Heaven's doors were closed. Eternity loomed ahead with grief
that never left for your sin. YOUR sin. Then, suppose the Judge, the Righteous
Judge, would say, I know you deserve the penalty. I know you cannot avoid
death, but I am going to die with you. We are going to buried together six feet
deep. And in three days we are coming out together. Free! The guilt paid.
Joyful- the sin and shame gone!
When Jesus died on the cross we died with Him.
When He arose we arose with Him.
Our life now is hid in God.
Please pray this prayer of thanksgiving-
Heavenly Father,
Jesus wept enough for my sin. I weep no more.
Jesus paid enough for my sin. I pay no more.
I cannot weep enough. I cannot pay enough. I am
poor, naked, blind, helpless.
All I have is Jesus.
Thank you, Father, for sending your Son to die for
my sin, and my sorrow.
I offer to you my joyful praises forever. My life
now is of Jesus living in me.
Amen.
If you make that decision to live for Jesus because
He died for you. Please e-mail
me right now.
Isaiah 53.3.
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted
with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we
esteemed him not.
4. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried
our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
5. But he was wounded for our transgressions,
he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him;
and with his stripes we are healed.