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SUICIDE - DEATH IS AN ENEMY

If you are even considering SUICIDE please visit these two websites - you may change your mind 
http://www.1000deaths.com
http://www.st-matthew.on.ca/bulletin/jeremy/suicide.html   

searching for fulfillment
by Max Solbrekken

"My colleagues say that I am a success. Many honors have come my way, but in the Bible is a sentence which expresses the way I feel about life: 'We have toiled all night and taken nothing'."                    - Clarence Darrow
                                      famed atheist & criminal lawyer

Everyone has a dream, desire or goal in life and mankind thirsts for success, achievement and fulfillment!   

By the standards of his peers, Darrow had reached the pinnacle, yet he was totally unfulfilled. In order to give expression to his dissatisfaction, he had to quote the Bible, which he claimed to disbelieve.     

Clarence Darrow was the trial lawyer who defended the evolutionary theory against the Christian patriot William Jennings Bryan, in the infamous 'Scopes Trial' of the mid 1920's.

After his great victory in gaining for the evolutionary 'foolosophy' theory the right to become the official religion of Academe in US schools, he felt compelled to quote the Bible to express his emptiness and utter despair in his own efforts!

Here is his summation of life: "We have toiled all night and taken nothing"!

His testimony could undoubtedly be repeated millions of times by people across the world who have been influential and successful in their field of endeavor but who have left God out of their lives!   

Yet, over the past 30 years I have heard glowing testimonials of people who in their time of sorrow, rejection, depression,  disillusionment and despair - called out to God for mercy and received help. God does hear and answer prayer!

The Bible declares, "Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation". (Isaiah 12:3) and, "For His anger is but for a moment, His favor is for life; Weeping may endure for a night, But joy cometh in the morning". (Ps. 30:5)

King David declared, "I sought the Lord and He heard me and delivered me from all my fears".      

The Bible says, "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life". (John 3:16)   

The Bible says, "He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not on the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him". (1 John 3:36)

FOUR BASIC DESIRES

Mankind thirsts after reality. The so-called "good times" of this world are like soap bubbles that look so beautiful in the sunlight, until they burst into nothing!

After the party, is the hangover. After the fling, the unwanted pregnancy. And after the drug scene, AIDS!  

Everyone longs to be useful. Rick Hansen, wheelchair athlete and Canadian hero, is a prime example of someone seeing an impossible dream come to pass, by "going the extra mile" to help his fellowman.    

John Wesley - founder of the Methodist Church stated, "Gain all you can, save all you can and give all you can."  Instead of cursing the darkness, we should 'light a candle' and instead of pointing a finger to condemn, we ought to "hold out a helping hand."  

General William Booth - founder of the Salvation Army - used as his slogan the word 'OTHERS'.  He was consumed with the prospects of blessing his fellowman.  HE stated, "Some men's ambition is art...some fame...some gold....My ambition is the souls of men."   

His wife Evangeline Booth stated, "Stoop as low as you lawfully can to pick them up rather than let them become worse while you stand on your dignity."  

We all seek for fulfillment. Marilyn Munroe stated, "If I can just be a movie star, I'll be the happiest person in the world". Her acceptance as a sex idol and movie star far eclipsed her fondest hopes, yet she became very unhappy and died from an overdose of pills~   

No one can attain to his or her highest potential without divine help from Jesus Christ! To reinforce that truth allows me to quote Malcolm Muggeridge - former Marxist, celebrated writer, broadcaster and actor - who converted to Jesus Christ:  

“Christ is the only answer to an insane world. They will not understand that the trouble with the western civilization is not economics, but mere good and evil!"  

“They are thinking they can make things work by policies, inventions, but man will never live on this planet without God!"  

Blaise Pascal warned: “If they turn away from God, one of two things can happen. They will think they are gods and go mad or turn to carnality and become animals”.  

Most people have a hunger for the supernatural. Everyone is created with a desire to worship God, and a vacuum in their hearts that only He can fill.  Some seek to fill that vacuum through ESP, clairvoyance, horoscopes or praying to Hindu gods during Transcendental Meditation...BUT STILL THERE IS NO REAL PEACE!

George Bernard Shaw stated, "I am ready to admit after contemplating the world and human nature for sixty years, that I see no way out of the world's miseries but by the way that would be found by Christ's will".

Dr. Richard Eby, well known obstetrician, gynecologist and surgeon, fell off a two story balcony in 1972, and was pronounced dead.   

In his book Caught Up To Paradise, Eby tells his supernatural experience. The former president of the Kansas City College of Osteopathy & Surgery and the American College of Osteopathic Obstetricians & Gynecologists, is alive today, and gives God all the glory.

Jesus said, "I am the resurrection and the life, he that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live".

Without doubt, putting our trust in God is a lot surer and safer than entertaining some weird "spirit guide", in an astro-travel trip!

THE BOTTOM LINE!

What is the bottom line? Where are we heading when life is over? What will be the most important thing, then? When it's "all said and done", the impending all consuming question still remains, "Where will I spend eternity?"

The Bible says, "He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God that made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of His Son.

“And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He that hath the Son hath life: and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God". (1 John 5:10-13)

Here are two important truths: No. 1 - If you believe God's Word concerning His Son Jesus Christ you have life. No. 2 - If you do not, you have death because you have called God a liar and rejected His Son Jesus Christ, Who is Life!   

My dear friend, Do the only proper and intelligent thing - Humble yourself and ask God for mercy, confessing Jesus Christ as your Lord & Saviour!