Help me, Ronda.

Help me, Ronda.

(What Ronda needs to know, and what Ellen or better fighting can't give her.)

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“Once I got in the medical room and I was down in the corner, I was like, ‘What am I anymore if I’m not this?’” a tearful Rousey admitted to host Ellen DeGeneres. “I was literally sitting there and thinking about killing myself, and that exact second I’m like, ‘I’m nothing. What do I do anymore?’ and ‘No one gives a (expletive) about me anymore without this.’”

The primary contributor to suicide is not a lack of self-love, but a lack of love for God (embracing His love for us). In fact, it is self-love that is a primary contributor to suicide, and death.  It is a distinction that needs to be made and understood by the living who may or may not be considering suicide for a real "solution".

Those who put their faith in things that perish such as their own, will feel worthless when those things perish.  They may rise to the height of their field, or sport, but eventually we all weaken or are just outdone.  True strength does not come in recognizing our own strength, but in recognizing our own feeble weakness.  Inevitably when our idols fall, we will lose hope and fall with them.

Their idols are silver and gold,
    the work of human hands.
They have mouths, but do not speak;
    eyes, but do not see.
They have ears, but do not hear;
    noses, but do not smell.
They have hands, but do not feel;
    feet, but do not walk;
    and they do not make a sound in their throat.
Those who make them become like them;
    so do all who trust in them.
(Psalm 115:4-8)

When God commands our worship of Him above all else, it is for our own good and not only because He alone is worthy... though He is.  It is because He alone is worthy that He alone will never leave us disillusioned when we put their faith in Him--unlike everything else.  His strength will never fail.  His rule will always stand, and He will always reign throughout all eternity, regardless of rebellious hearts.  Therefore, it is only those who take refuge in Him, who can ever experience lasting hope.

God's command for you to put your faith and belief in Him only, then, is also the only means that you can have true lasting hope.  God's command for your worship of Him only, is ultimately also His gift to you; true hope, joy, peace, and salvation.  "Worship me. Don't you know all other hope is perishing?"

All the pep-talk in the world, but our strength has limits;our intelligence has limits;  our ability to win has limits.  Someday we will fail, and we will die.  If there was any doubt, there is death.  We cannot defeat the grave.  However, God can, and God has.

“O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?” The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. (1 Corinthians 15:55-57)

Even if by some illusion we somehow manage to mask or weakness in supposed strength and subdue the desire for suicide with the deceit of self-importance, self-elevation, self-worth, and self-determination apart from God; prolonging our years so that we reach an otherwise natural death--what will we do in the life to come? How will our strength measure up to the strength of God Whom we should have trusted all along?  Even if a life is spared from suicide by convincing ourselves how important we are of ourselves, the soul that sins will still die in the end.  So then, the false hope that spares from suicide will only prove fatal, in the end.

If we want to have hope that saves from death, and to also give hope, then we must takes God's counsel and worship Him alone above all else.

Now I know that the Lord saves his anointed;
    he will answer him from his holy heaven
    with the saving might of his right hand.
Some trust in chariots and some in horses,
    but we trust in the name of the Lord our God.
They collapse and fall,
    but we rise and stand upright. (Psalm 20:6-8)