Max Lucado says the recent celebrity suicides should tell all of those suffering, to embrace God and although weeping comes, so does joy.
In an op-ed piece for Fox news.com Lucado writes,
Suicide victims battled life’s rawest contests. They often faced a mental illness or physical illnesses and felt the peril of mental fatigue. What you and I take for granted, they coveted. Optimism. Hope. Confidence that all would be well – that they would be well.
Their clouds had no silver linings. Their storms had no rainbows.
If that describes the way you feel, Lucado writes, I urge you to consider one of the great promises of the Bible. The promise begins with this phrase: “Weeping may last through the night”
Followed by “Joy comes with the morning.” that encouragement is from Psalm 30:5.
Despair will not rule the day. Sorrow will not last forever. The clouds may eclipse the sun, but they cannot eliminate it. The night might prolong the dawn, but it cannot defeat it. Morning comes. Not as quickly as we want. Not as dramatically as we desire. But morning comes, and, with it, comes joy. Joy comes.
Joy comes because God comes.
And he adds this personal note to those struggling in life… asking “And you? You’ll be tempted to give up. Please don’t. Open your Bible. Meditate on Scripture. Sing hymns. Talk to someone about your hurt. Seek help. Place yourself in a position to be found by hope. Weeping comes. But so does joy.