Death has numerous weapons at its disposal to take the life of men. Among them are road traffic accident, diabetes, malaria, high blood pressure, cancer, fall from height, gas explosion, war, famine, fatal treatment errors by a treating doctor/nurse, careless Babalawo, inimical pastors, blood-thirsty witches, wizards, and many more which include suicide. in fact, the ways to die are countless.
But why is suicide the only one man feels when it is the employed tool, automatically takes the dead to hell? As if how the cloth is stripped off the body actually matters more than where the soul goes after death. A man in a burning cloth will not take his cloth off the same way like the one without issues will leisurely take his off. In fact, the one will burning cloth will shred his with any available shredder at the speed of light.
A man who after realizing there is nothing to life and choose to take his own life to go to another place he feels is home and while doing it ask God to forgive his sins and sincerely tells God who is able to see the heart of man that he can’t wait another second in this wicked world and under such circumstance, commits suicide, how is God going to judge this kind of man compared to the one who is busy swimming in materialism till he become aged to the point he must give up the ghost. And at that point, instead of fixing his mind on heavenly things was busy regretting and thinking about the estate he will leave behind after death.
If you were God, how would you judge this matter. Well, this is not an arguable thing. The truth is God owes nobody apology or explanation. His word is what he will allow to stand.
Jesus was destined to die a shameful death such as being hung on the cross. In the same vein, an individual can be destined to die by suicide for the salvation of the soul. We cannot with our limited senses know as much as God or more than him.
Why all these contemplation? It is because of Judas’ suicide case.
Who knows what he was fixing His mind on while contemplating suicide and eventually carrying it out.
Most definitely, many of us would not remember God during our dying moment because we’ve not taken the pain and time to train our minds to always think about Him. The mind is most likely going to be fixed on what it has been trained with all our lifetime to indulge in (materialism). And eventually when dying will automatically be fixed on familiar thoughts (materialistic thinking), the thought of things other than God. In this case, there’s no suicide but look at what the state of mind is in death. But the truth is nothing is more suicidal than inordinate indulgence in materialism.
Those who are wise know that life was given by God to man for the use of preparation for death.
There are many ways for man to die and suicide is one of them. They all serve the same purpose- To separate the spirit from the body. And it is not all who die by suicide will be condemned by God. The ways of God is totally different from that of men.
Caveat: This is not to encourage you to kill yourself in the bid to run away from carrying your inevitable cross. If that was your case, then be rest assured you will be apportioned the hottest part in the place reserved for those who chose to follow their own way at the expense of God’s. And if this spurs some antagonistic tendencies in you or confuse you in a way, just act like you never came across this post.
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