If we really want to help people through suicidal depression, they need to know the truth about God and how much He loves them and forgives them … no matter what. If they place their faith and trust in the only savior of the world Jesus Christ: who died on the cross and shed His blood to atone for their sins and was buried and resurrected on the third day! Jesus is their only hope!
Acts 4:12
“And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”
When people are dealing with deep depression, the anxieties of life, ruined relationships, lost jobs, the death of a child or spouse, or ongoing health problems, the last thing they need is the idea that God hates them.
How much better it is to know that even though they are going through some of the worst things that can be experienced in life, God still loves them, and is still with them, and will continue to be by their side for the rest of their life and for eternity—no matter what?
The view of God as an ever-loving friend who is on your side no matter what does not encourage people to commit suicide, but rather encourages people to have hope for the future and to believe that there is a purpose in life for them.
So teach people that suicide is forgivable, not just because this is true, but because this it tells others what kind of God we serve.
God is a loving and compassionate God, full of understanding in our times of weakness, tenderness in our times of pain, and present with us in times of abandonment.
Romans 8:35-39
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35 Who will separate us from the love of [a]Christ? Will tribulation, or trouble, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? 36 Just as it is written:
“For Your sake we are killed all day long; We were regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”
37 But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
The knowledge that God forgives only through Jesus, does not encourage people to commit suicide, but helps keep them from it. Blessings!