SUICIDE
Our life is a precious gift from God. From the beginning, it was God's will that we humans live happily on earth. God never intended for us humans to suffer. The current state of the world is the direct consequence of our existence without God. Anxiety, depression, and a lack of perspective are causing more and more people to take their own lives because they see no way out of their worries and troubles. Even therapy often doesn't help those affected. Since our life comes from God, we do not belong to ourselves. For this reason, only God can determine a person's lifespan. This means that none of us has the right to end our own life on our own. In this respect, suicide is a sin; moreover, a sin for which there is no forgiveness because it cannot be repented of. For the decision to end one's own life is irrevocable....
Anyone who takes their own life deprives themselves of the chance to receive help. Even if suicide seems like a way out to some, in reality there is no need to take this step. Rather, we must understand that true happiness in life can only be found in a relationship with God, our Creator, and that the solution to all our problems lies with God. Fellowship with God, our Heavenly Father, gives meaning to our lives. It ends the desolation of our existence and gives us a perspective beyond death. It fills us with an indescribable peace and eliminates all bad and self-destructive thoughts within us. No matter how hopeless a person's situation in life may seem, everyone can find help in God. Those who trust in God and follow His Word will experience how God changes their lives.
While people with depression and suicidal thoughts are often ignored in society and largely left to fend for themselves, and therapy is often difficult to obtain, they can count on free help and support at any time in a Christian community. At the same time, everyone who chooses a life with Jesus finds a new family here. In the community, believers can share their joys and sorrows with one another and encourage and strengthen one another. In this way, they can help one another bear the burdens of this life. Furthermore, God gives us His promise that one day all the suffering of this transient world will come to an end. Then, after God has renewed the earth and freed it from all evil, the true and imperishable life of eternal joy begins, which everyone who accepts God's invitation can share.
Whoever trusts in God therefore has every reason for hope.
Be strong and take heart, all you who hope in the Lord
Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God.
The prospect of the righteous is joy, but the hopes of the wicked come to nothing.
Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and His understanding no one can fathom. He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
" For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."
Say to them, ‘As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that they turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! Why will you die, people of Israel?’
Come to me (Jesus), all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.
Peace I (Jesus) leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.
I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which He has called you, the riches of His glorious inheritance in His holy people (...).
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In His great mercy He has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead (...).