I was one of just a few people to receive a suicide note that day. By the time I actually found it the event had already passed...unsuccessfully.
He had lost all hope. Had lost all will to carry on. He does not know my life-changing, hope-giving, unconditionally-loving God.
But I do.
He wouldn't let me come see him at the facility. He wasn't willing to talk to me. And I had only one place I could go to be heard...on my face.
So I did.
"I sought for a man among them who would make a wall, and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found no one." Ezekiel 22:30
FOUND NO ONE?? FOUND NO ONE!!
Right under that verse in my Bible I wrote "see me!" because I didn't want God looking around and seeing no one standing in the gap for my friend.
I was called to be his gap-filler.
I begged God to save his life and I fought spiritual wars on his behalf. It was during this time that my friend felt God's hand for the first time as he attempted to kill himself again a few days after the last incident. He told me later about a "spiritual presence" that saved him. (It a truly miraculous story I don't have the space to share here.)
But did that supernatural, hand-of-God, moment change his life?
Nope.
He wasn't ready and he may never be, but I can know I did my part.
What about you? What kind of gap filler can you be? Who should you stand in that gap for?
Ask God. Then do your part to be seen so He doesn't have to say He found no one!
written by: Dayspring Boldt Broxon