We are facing a difficult subject. When we talk about the issue of suicide and self-harm, we’re talking about the depths of despair of the lives of people. Sometimes I think we have this confusion about this level or type of despair. Oftentimes we act as though the Bible doesn’t speak to that level of despair. We need to revisit what the Scripture actually says about the dark moments of the soul—the dark nights of the soul.
There’s a reason that the Bible speaks in so many terms of comfort. Psalm 34:18 says, “The Lord is close to the brokenhearted, he saves those who are crushed in spirit.” When we’re crushed in many ways, one of the chief among those is the way the Bible describes our last enemy: Death. Death, the basic word just means separation and brokenness, deterioration. First Corinthians 15:26 says that, “The last enemy to be destroyed is death.” Already Jesus has conquered death, but we still live in this body of death.
One of the things that concerns me when we talk about this issue of suicide is the great deception in suicide. Often, I think we fear to talk about some of
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