Thunderkat said:
As a Christian is it wrong to want to die? My life has been terrible and full of torment (retire from the Navy in 2 years). I constantly ask God to let me die and bring me home, is this wrong? My wife gets mad at me but I am tired and life doesn't seem to get any easier, it just keeps getting worse. The only thing that keeps me going is that I know God is real and I work for him.
You just need to change your perspective on this life. Death is not an end it is a beginning of ETERNAL life! ETERNAL, meditate on this word for a while. Thousands, millions of years from now in the house of our Lord you will not even remember what you are going through right now.
What is happening to you now is to form your character for the life that is ahead. For Millennial Kingdom and beyond. Did you read my testimonial? I can send it to you. It will explain some things that you need to know. He will rule the nations with iron rod in Millennial Kingdom right? It is not going to be a democracy but a perfect and divine dictatorship. We are to enforce his rule over following generations. Yes, dictatorship. Enjoy fruits of human self-rule, democracy for a little while longer.
If you think about it was a plan from the beginning of Israel. Judges were to rule the nation by getting direct revelations from God Himself but judges got lazy and it went downhill from there. In Millennial Kingdom people that came out of Heaven when it comes to Earth will not get lazy and will do what is needed to keep following generations in line. If you make it to Heaven you will be one of those people that will never get lazy.
Teaching about Millennial Kingdom is almost entirely absent from mainstream Christianity, yet it is so important! We are here, for few decades to develop our character so that we can rule for God! In the way we are going to be government employees in the government of God Himself!
You think that after you die you will go to some boredom house in the sky where you will sit on the cloud and play on harp for all eternity? Think again! We will have places to go and things to do! You will be working for God in capacity that is perfectly fulfilling and fitting for your character because it is a role, "job" for which you were created! Look forward to that! Look up into glorious future God created for you not a daily grind of pain and problems!
So, you have a health problem? It is to form your character in some way. Do not give up just keep dealing with it the best you can. Some day you will understand why it had to happen, it just so happen today is not that day. It maybe teaching your character patience and perseverance. What does not kill you makes you stronger.
Money problems - character.
Relationship problems - character
Problems are blessings in disguises.