“This too shall pass.” Many people believe this saying comes from the Bible, however it is actually comes from Muslim mystics. As a little boy I used to get in trouble a lot. Not because I was “bad” but because I was just “energetic”. My punishments usually resulted in a loss of privileges. I can remember one time as I sat in my room whipping my tears after I had been “discipline”, my loving Grandmother (RIP) came in to console me. She put her hand on my shoulder and said “Baby, this too shall pass.”
I didn’t really understand the meaning of this until about 20 years later when she was holding my hand telling me the same thing as I sat in front of her troubled. All problems are temporary. No matter how bad life seems, at some point it has to change because change is inevitable.
Last year 150,000 people committed suicide in the U.S. A number of these deaths were due to mental illness. A great portion of these deaths were people with temporary problems that resorted to final and irreversible answers. Death is final, and the pain of loved ones that lose people to suicide is also final.
The Bible states “Do not be a fool, why die before your time” (Ecclesiastes 7:17). Understand that you belong to God, and your time on this earth has been borrowed from Him. Life is hard. Understand you are protected by Him, the trials and tribulations of these days are simply a test for your soul and are not permanent. Death is a rest that cannot be taken, it can only be granted.
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