Thursday, March 3, 2011

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when one stops to reflect and consider that the essence of our spiritual salvation were the physical and emotional pain, suffering and death (at the hands of mankind's fallen nature) that Jesus voluntarily surrendered His being to with selfless love, one may perhaps get a clue as to the very real and powerful spiritual ramifications that these very physical aspects and conditions of our reality possesess.

death in particular has profound spiritual ramifications.

i may not be privy to the exact spiritual consequences of suicide but i do sense that the spiritual consequences of that act are negative. just don't ask me to describe the character of that negative consequence. perhaps you can ask the Holy Spirit. :)

on the more positive side of death is what Jesus taught us and exemplified with His own death - "Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends." (John 15:13 NIV).

it is therefore any wonder that one of the ten commandments is to not kill?  it comes in at #5 just after "honor thy father and thy mother." my mom always liked to remind me of the #4 rank of that commandment. LOL

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