What's more valuable than your own life?
Martin, Lay Ping, Sandy, Soon Hin and I headed towards Noya cafe straight after the service. On our way, we saw one of our cg friends sitting alone at one of the cafe. Martin went forward to say hi to him and we followed him.
"Hey, what are you doing here?” I looked at him.
"I...... I......I want to die" he said sadly. At the point of time, I was stunned and thought that I must have hearing problem.
"What did you say? Can you say again?" I exclaimed.
"I don't want to live anymore! I want to die......” He started to sob as he said.
I was loss for words at that very moment. Fancy a Christian thought of killing himself on Easter day. The day whereby Christ was crucified on the cross for us, sinners and rose again on the third day which is today, Easter! Jesus died for us sinner on the cross to wash away our sins with his precious blood. Now, I heard from him personally that he wanted to die! Gosh!!!
Martin decided to stay with him and settled our lunch at the cafe. Martin, a trained counselor started to counsel him and talk him out of attempting suicide for hours. Thank God, he decided not to commit suicide anymore.
It's so amazing that how God uses his children to help the needy and those who are troubled. Initially, we don't intend to go for lunch and wanted to headed straight back home. We just thought of accompanying Lay Ping for lunch and decided to check out at the new restaurant. It's such a coincident or rather by divine fate to see him alone at the café which we didn't intend to visit. Most importantly, I asked a stupid question on “hey, what are you doing here?” which is so obvious that he's having his lunch. Thought of it, if I have not asked such silly question, I doubt that we will know what is going on and his intention of killing himself. Well, by God's grace, we have managed to talk him out and he looked more cheerful than before.
Dear Bro,
Remember what you've promised us. Hold on to this verse, Be still and know I'm God. Whenever, you're down or troubled looked upon God and He will guide you by His mercy and grace. You've yet to fulfill your purpose in life and life is precious. Many people out there are struggling for survival and we should love our body of Christ more than ever. God created us and our lives is His not yours nor ours. If I can overcome those trials of fires, why can't you? We'll be there for you ya! Remember, God keeps His promises and His love for us is unfailing ya.
Take care