Selfish Dying and Satan-Assisted Suicide

Someone can really know about divine healing but CHOOSE not to exercise any faith toward it because he reasons that being with the Lord would be far better anyway.  I’m sure that it WOULD be better for that person, but his spouse, children, other relatives and fellow church members would NOT consider it better if he “went home” prematurely as opposed to going home at the end of a long life.  Once you’re gone, you can’t further the kingdom of God on this earth.

I’m not talking about people who live in constant excruciating pain and have to take drugs that send their minds to outer space somewhere.  I can understand someone hurting so badly that he just wants relief even if dying is the way to get that relief.  It’s not God’s best, and things don’t have to end that way, but I “get” the idea of just wanting the suffering to end.

Nor am I talking about people who just plain don’t know about divine healing.  People die in ignorance of what Jesus did all the time.

However, some people who know full well that healing is available because Jesus paid for it can reason that their lives aren’t very good anyway, so they offer no resistance to the devil taking them out early when a serious illness strikes.  That is basically Satan-assisted suicide.  All suicide is selfish because it has no regard for the loss that others will incur.

Unless Jesus returns during our lifetimes, we will all die.  Even if we’ve known about divine healing, death is still an enemy that has yet to be defeated.  Our goal should be to die being able to say with Paul that we’ve finished our courses, run our races and fought the good fight.  It isn’t selfish to die when you’ve finished your work here.

However, taking “early retirement” by knowingly choosing to just die when you should have many good years ahead of you is selfish.  If that’s you, please think about others and not just about yourself.  If you know about divine healing, you owe it to yourself, others and the Kingdom to finish your course and make the most of your life on earth.  Once your life on earth is over, you never get a second shot at it.

And even if you’ve lived a long life, you don’t have to let Satan evict you from your body.  Your mortal body won’t last forever, but God’s provision for healing does not end just because you reach a certain advanced age.  So expect to be fit and flourishing (Psalm 92:13-14) until you decide you’re ready to go at a ripe old age.