These realities are unacceptable, so, in desperation he regains control by his suicide decision. In other words, the proper response to God is submission. The father in our example has no right to argue with God s workings in his life. His obligation is to submit to his Creator. What is true for this father is true for every Christian.
Suicide is a sin of rebellion.
It is a shaking the fist in God s face, an unwillingness to submit to His demands. Suicide is self murder, but, this is secondary to the primary evil of rebellion against God s Providence. Suicide arbitrarily ignores the Person and Work of God. It is a direct assault upon His authority. Although the Bible gives no record of a Christian s suicide, there is sufficient scriptural material to suggest Christians can commit such a sin.