Do I do it or not?

It was a long life, 80 years and counting. He didn't know what happened but here he was sitting on the edge of a cliff. He didn't know how he got there, but he did know what he was about to do....

Why does any one contemplate suicide? Is it because of excess stress in a person's life? Or maybe depression that developed over many years? He really didn't know, but somehow, he decided to end it all.

Thankfully their was a woman who just happened to be out for a long walk and came upon him. He told her his name and she told him hers. It so happened that they were neighbors for several years but had never met. She had been married but her husband died a few years earlier and she was now alone. He, of course, was divorced and lived alone. They talked about the weather, their kids and some other nonsense. 

As they talked, he began to feel better and kinda decided not to end his life that day. He then asked her if she would like to have lunch with him - she said yes.

It's funny how when we are at our most vulnerable state in life someone comes along to help us over come our problems. It could be a smile from a stranger or a pat on the back by a friend. What ever it takes for a person to change their minds or turn away from a troubling situation happens at just the right moment.

Life can be as good or as bad as we make it out to be. If we choose it to be bad, it will be very bad. However, if we chose good, it can be very good taking us from being suicidal to being in a state of freedom. Freedom from stress or perhaps a state of depression that presses us to make wrong decision. Decisions that leads to more stress or intensifies our depressive state.

All too often people find themselves in a predicament that they just can't get out of easily. The person ask the question, that all of us has asked, at one time or another in our life. "How did I get myself into this predicament"? "Where did I go wrong".  

None of us wants to be in a situation where we contemplate suicide. There are just to many good things in life for us to experience. There is no need for us to to be anything but happy. Looking forward to being with friends and family. Experiencing the beauty a national park, boating with friends or just reading a good book.

It is up to us as to how we live our life and to minimize the dangers and pit falls that are all around us.

Look for the good things in life. Look for the good in people. Look for what can make us happy and embrace it with all our heart and mind and soul.

Share our findings with other people. When they see how happy we are, they want to be happy also. Our happiness flows from our innermost being with love that surrounds us and others changing our thoughts and expectations into pure joy. Why not? Our happiness is right here. Right where we are now and can be grasped in an instant. Go for the "gold" and make someone happy right now. You'll be surprised as to what you can do for yourself and them.

Bible lesson

My son's Bible lesson he prepared for his youth group April 2015.

I read a review on Mike Bickle. I think it's perfectly fine for someone to have a different interpretation of eschatology. I also think it's ok to be a little flexible using our best understanding of the culture, language, knowledge of the author, and the context of what and when the book was written. When it comes to the prophetic, and the pursuit of the prophetic, I am very cautious. For the Word says:

Preach the word of God. Be prepared, whether the time is favorable or not. Patiently correct, rebuke, and encourage your people with good teaching. For a time is coming when people will no longer listen to sound and wholesome teaching. They will follow their own desires and will look for teachers who will tell them whatever their itching ears want to hear. They will reject the truth and chase after myths. But you should keep a clear mind in every situation. Don’t be afraid of suffering for the Lord. Work at telling others the Good News, and fully carry out the ministry God has given you. (‭2 Timothy‬ ‭4‬:‭2-5‬ NLT)

I listen to a lot of the prophetic. Probably more than I should sometimes. Even the prophetic that may be of the enemy can give us an idea of what's going on. As the verses speak of above, I am learning that although the prophetic is interesting, I need to focus and teach the Good News and not change nor alter the Word in any way. For Jesus is the Word (John 1:14), the Way, the Truth and the Light. People love quoting John 3:16, but they don't read it in context. 

“For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through him. “There is no judgment against anyone who believes in him. But anyone who does not believe in him has already been judged for not believing in God’s one and only Son. And the judgment is based on this fact: God’s light came into the world, but people loved the darkness more than the light, for their actions were evil. All who do evil hate the light and refuse to go near it for fear their sins will be exposed. But those who do what is right come to the light so others can see that they are doing what God wants. ” (‭John‬ ‭3‬:‭16-21‬ NLT)

It says "anyone who does not believe in him has already been judged".  As well, satan believes in Jesus, but he doesn't "... come to the light". It's also too late for him:
Judgment will come because the ruler of this world has already been judged. (‭John‬ ‭16‬:‭11‬ NLT)

1Co 12 tells us to pursue the gifts. I fear too many see the gifts for their own self and not for His glory. That is why I have stop pursuing the gifts and and focusing on the gospel.  If He so chooses, if and when (if ever) I'm ready in His eyes, the gifts will come:

Put on your new nature, and be renewed as you learn to know your Creator and become like him. In this new life, it doesn’t matter if you are a Jew or a Gentile, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbaric, uncivilized, slave, or free. Christ is all that matters, and he lives in all of us. (‭Colossians‬ ‭3‬:‭10-11‬ NLT)

I love the Word! All those years I lost searching for the Truth.  I studied and read so much, ignore the Bible all that time believing the lie.  All that ever gave me was the "mental ascent" I craved, but was left all the more empty. It was only when I read the Word that I learned the Truth and received the Holy Spirit; praise God!

Geesh, it's after 12:30. Gotta go to bed.

Hope you decide to accept my challenge one day to read the New Testament with me. Perhaps we could do a chapter a day and share our thoughts by Email.  

Amen...

Above

High above the white washed sand stands a lone person.

Could that person be you?

No, it's an illusion of the most wonderful type 

This is a place for the lonely 

A world filled with light.

Lite drives out the negative and and washes away the loneliness.

To conquer all in its bid for the person of its charge.

Let the light shine where it will, for it brings love

to the heart of the lonely one.