Thoughts from Rev. Jim

When I was asked to contribute to this website, I never thought i would face the situation I did a few weeks ago. My grandson thought he wanted to commit suicide. He was taking some prescription medicine, so he decided to take half a bottle of it. Then he either became scared or never intended to let it go any further. He went and told his mother what he had one. She immediately got him to the hospital. It took a few hours to get to the physical shape he should be in. Sometime later, I heard he ust thought they would give him some medicine to make him throw up, but as you can imagine it was much more involved than that.

When I received word of what he had done, I immediately began to pray that God would take care of him, and He did. I was never really worried and hurt because i knew God was in control.

Parents, let me offer you a word of advice. You see, my grandson did this to get attention from his mother. She had been pressuring him to make good grades to get a scholarship to college. This pressure became too much for him. So parents, watch your children to see if you are giving them all the attention they need. Be aware of un-do pressure that you might be subjecting them to unintentionally. I praise God for taking care of my grandson. I know He is the one that made everything right.

The apostle Paul prevented a jailer from committing suicide. Please read Paul’s account carefully in the following verses:

Acts 16:25-34 (KJV)
²⁵ And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them.
²⁶ And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one’s bands were loosed.
²⁷ And the keeper of the prison awaking out of his sleep, and seeing the prison doors open, he drew out his sword, and would have killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had been fled.
²⁸ But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, Do thyself no harm: for we are all here.
²⁹ Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas,
³⁰ And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?
³¹ And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.
³² And they spake unto him the word of the Lord, and to all that were in his house.
³³ And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, straightway.
³⁴ And when he had brought them into his house, he set meat before them, and rejoiced, believing in God with all his house.