What The Bible Says About Suicide. Part [3] 02/21/2024 (Evening thought)

Psalms 56:Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresses me. 2 Mine enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many that fight against me, O thou most High. 3 What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.

CNN: Almost exactly one year ago, 14-year-old Adriana Kuch was attacked by a group of teens in a hallway of Central Regional High School in Berkeley Township, New Jersey. No one expected it to be the last week of her life. Adriana had been bullied leading up to the assault on February 1, 2023, her family said. The gruesome attack was captured on video and promptly uploaded to social media, where Adriana became the target of more vitriol and cyberbullying.

Less than two days later, Adriana killed herself in her home as “a result of the emotional distress, humiliation, and embarrassment she experienced,” according to a lawsuit filed by her family this week against the Central Regional Board of Education, the school district’s former superintendent and others.  

Individuals are also observed to consider suicide in some instances when they feel they are a burden to others, and that they might be trapped in situations where things would never get better. Other contributing factors include intense physical, or emotional pain, and evolutionary reasons, since evolution teaches that there was not any intelligent, original purpose in man coming into being, as they claim.

Psalms 56:11 In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do unto me. 12 Thy vows are upon me, O God: I will render praises unto thee. 13 For thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?

May God add His blessing to the study of His word. “Good night” and God bless!

What The Bible Says About Suicide. Part [2] 02/20/2024 (Morning thought)

1st Kings 19:And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and withal how he had slain all the prophets with the sword. 2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by to morrow about this time. 3 And when he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.

The following are just some of the reasons why one considers taking their own life: Discouragement, or depression, PTSD, financial problems, as was found to be the case when the great recession settled like a dark cloud upon the nation, and persons began to lose their jobs, and their homes on a large scale. During that awful time some people felt defeated, in losing their homes, the single largest investment, or asset for most families, and rather than go through harsh foreclosure proceedings, some people chose to call it quits, and took their own life prematurely.

Then there is drug abuse, cyber bullying, sextortion, loneliness, mental health issues, sexual abuse as a minor, sadness or grief, shame, worthlessness, that life is not worth living, and intense guilt. CNN: About two weeks after his oldest son’s funeral, South Carolina state house Rep. Brandon Guffey says he received a private Instagram message with a laughing emoji. Gavin Guffey, 17, had fatally shot himself in a bathroom in July 2022, and the grieving father was searching for clues on what led to his suicide.

Then Guffey and his younger son began to get messages demanding money in exchange for nude photos of his late son. Anyone on Gavin’s Instagram followers list who had the last name Guffey got similar messages, his father says. The family began piecing together Gavin’s last moments and discovered he had encountered a scammer on Instagram and unwittingly became a victim of sexual extortion, a crime the FBI warns is increasingly targeting underage boys and leading to an alarming increase in suicides nationwide.

Genesis 39:11 And it came to pass about this time, that Joseph went into the house to do his business; and there was none of the men of the house there within. 12 And she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me: and he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out. 13 And it came to pass, when she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, and was fled forth.

May The Lord add His blessing to the study of His word. God bless!