Once in a while, I met someone who was so down, discouraged and depressed. He would cut his hands around the wrists; this self-multilation helps him reduced the terrible pain inside his heart he said. But is it really I asked him. No, cutting, hurting oneself like this does not help at all he finally admitted. After so many attempts to choke, to hang himself and so on, this was the last time he tried to end it all so he won't bother anyone else any more.
Piercing, lacerating one's body hoping it would ease the pain is just a way one copes with the aweful pain inside one's heart and mind. One person I met some time ago would burn himself with cigarette lighter, hoping the filth, the pain, the shame and the emotional trauma he has experienced since childhood would go away. Maybe he said that God would love and accept him and not letting him be put in hell.
The love of God in my heart caused me to reach out and ministered to this hurting person with the love of God. After some sessions of 1-1, a person who wanted to die with the help of other professionals finally changed his mind not to hurt or kill himself.
Through the entire process, I have seen God's grace at work in the life of each one who has come to God for help; it's a desperate cry for help. At one time I had seen this 18 years old lady took a lot of medicine that would cause her mind to go into a coma. All just to want to get away from the pain, the rejection, the loneliness and the depression.
If one only knows that Jesus is truly the Answer. Many does not provide cure for the soul; it's only a temporary solution that man can offer another lost and hurting soul. It's truly the love of God and the power of Jesus Christ can set one free to love life and to live in freedom from bondage again.
God is looking for a lot of His children who are sensitive enough to the hurting world out there to offer a helping hand. May God use you and me to help bring His true healing and transformation to the broken world in the power of the Holy Spirit.
Pastor Linh
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