Unanswered Questions
Day 176
Suicide always leaves unanswered questions.
“Just this week I spoke with a darling father,” says Barbara
Johnson. “He was about forty years old and had a seventeen-year-old son. He
went to wake him up in the morning for school and found him hanging from a
chandelier. There’s no preparation for this. A darling Christian boy, active in
his church; his father was a wonderful Christian man. So there’s no explanation
for this.
“That is when you have to claim Deuteronomy 29:29, ‘The
secret things belong to the Lord.’ And this is a secret thing. No one will ever
know the reason why this thing happened, this side of heaven. As I counsel many
parents who have lost their children to suicide, that is the hardest one to
deal with. They want to blame themselves. I try to tell them that their child
went out to meet a just and a loving God. And God only knows the answers. You
can’t blame yourself for what your kids do or grab onto guilt.”
No, you cannot blame yourself. There is no responsibility or
control when it comes to suicide.
“Now I know in part; then I shall know fully” (1 Corinthians
13:12).
Holy Father, I will
never truly know the reason for this suicide until I get to heaven. Every time
I start to point the finger of blame, gently cover my hand with Yours and
restore me in Your peaceful presence. Amen.
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