She is twenty-eight years old and in good physical health except for the depression. She lives with her boyfriend in a small Dutch town near the German border....and she is scheduled to voluntarily end her life next month. Her psychiatrist told here that there is no help for her and that she will never get any better.
So she will live until then as comfortably as she can and on that scheduled day they will come to her house.....she will lie down on the couch....with no music playing....and the 'doctor' will be real caring and patient as she is readied for the procedure. The person administering.....first the sedative and then the drug....will probably wish her a good journey....but she says in advance that she will not like that....for in her mind she is going nowhere.
Sometime after she is dead the appropriate government people will review everything to make sure that the suicide was done with proper procedures....and then she will be cremated.....with her ashes spread in an area of the woods that she and her boyfriend chose as a special place. She did not want to be buried in a plot that would "burden" her boyfriend with having to keep it "tidy."
She does admit to being a little scared because after all we do not know exactly what happens after death....which shows some confusion because she already stated that she is sure that she is going nowhere?
I would ask that you the reader might meditate on this situation....not out of great compassion for this twenty-eight year old woman...because she obviously has no concern about God. She does not want to burden her boyfriend....but does not care about how she might influence others to follow her example.
The Netherlands was once' a bastion of Reformed Christianity. Look how far that nation has fallen....and consider that America....that once...."city upon a hill"....is moving fast in the same direction
No....I would not ask so much that you might pray for this young woman's soul....as much as that you might pray that God....if it be in His perfect will....would somehow....make a way that this woman might hear the gospel of Jesus Christ....spiritually....meaning through the Holy Spirit....for the first time in her life....and that God might regenerate her.....as He did for you and me.....and call her....of which if the Holy Spirit draws someone.....they may kick and scream.....but they will be dragged....and then gloriously see the meaning of life....and the hope of not only eternity but of a calling in this life. The depression would be gone....replaced by almost indescribable joy....the world would see this....and probably be angry at the turn of events....for as Jesus nears in His glorious return in righteous judgment....they would increasingly know inwardly that they themselves were in trouble.
It might be that this suicide does take place. May it then be....once again if it be in God's perfect will....that nominal believers....which are not real believers....might be shocked confronting their own eternal suicide....unassisted by doctors....but not unassisted by....principalities and powers....the rulers of the darkness of this age....and spiritual hosts of wickedness. (Ephesians 6:120
Possibly you are not aware of this but the acronym....TULIP....that beloved Dutch flower....stands for fundamental truths in God's Word. Rather than try to describe it myself I would simply recommend that you Google....What Is Tulip, Ligonier....and begin what would be a wonderful and necessary study! The tulip is blooming right now....may it bloom mightily and gloriously in the hearts and minds of the church....all to the glory of God!
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