Reasons to Breathe

Sometimes we get empty. Sometimes we feel like we can’t keep on walking. Sometimes we don’t find answers to life’s questions. Life becomes a complete burden and our strength is just failing. A lot of Christians feel that way too: Elijah did. David wrote some psalms around that idea. Spurgeon suffered of depression for a long time in his life; heck: even Jesus sweated blood! But it gets dangerous when depression and anxiety walks along those feelings of tiredness. Sometimes we can hear that voice that tells us: “You have no reasons to breathe”.

Let’s keep things clear: suicidal thoughts are just from the Devil, but it has its psychological mumbo jumbo on the inside. I don’t want to get into the “saved-or-not-if-suicidal” discussion, but Christians struggle with this too. I know better. I did too. Suicidal thoughts come on the wake of emotional and spiritual breakdown. I struggled with those thoughts when I was on the prime of my pornography addiction. I was spiritually dead and emotionally torn. I wasn’t getting what I wanted, and because of that, I saw no reason to breathe.

I don’t know which are your fights. But I feel your pain. I know what it’s like to stay in front of a closed door. I know what it feels like to see no light at the end of your tunnel. I know what it’s like to be isolated and misunderstood. But let me tell you the most amazing thing I’ve ever listened: You have reasons to breathe, because someone stopped breathing for you.

Yes. Someone stopped breathing so you can breathe a new life.

That man is Jesus. Realize that God loved you since the dawn of time, and he loved you even when you were a sinner. He loved you with everlasting love, and although being His enemy, He gave His Son TO DIE the death you are not supposed to take for yourself. Jesus Christ loved you so He endured the most gruesome death, so you could get a new heart. New beginnings are due thanks to His sacrifice. New feelings are due thanks to His sacrifice. Forgiveness and love, and care, and acknowledgement, and transformation, and cleanness, and direction, and purpose are due to His sacrifice. We can’t outrun His grace when those thoughts attack us. He knows because He fought temptations Himself. We are loved. His Blood bought us. God’s Only Son was killed for us.

So, yes. You have reasons to breathe. When those voices come, fight them with the Word, the promise that never fails. Use the Word of God as the guard for your mind, and as the hope for your future. Use the Word of God as the banner you rise for victory over depression, anxiety and loneliness, because it has the power to transform hearts.

Let’s fight for life. See around and shake up! I know it’s hard to fight those thoughts, but God is stronger!

Life is too damn short to waste it thinking about how to lose it! Let’s trust God is the Light inside of the tunnel, and the Light that is waiting us on the outside.