Led To Prevent Suicide

I was driving home from work when I noticed this young man dressed in black, on a bridge sitting on top of the fence which served as a barrior to keep people  from falling off the edge.  I asked the Lord if this was a problem and if I should stop. I felt as though I should keep going, so I did. But when I got to the end of the bridge I  felt an urgency to stop so I pulled over in a motel parking lot at the end of the bridge.

I started walking down the sidewalk on the bridge asking the Lord what this was all about. I knew the Lord wanted me down there but I did not know why. I figure the young man was either contemplating suicide or he was just messing around. By the time I reached him he was now standing there looking out through the fence.

I walked up to him and put my hand on his back and said your going to think this is strange but the Lord told me to come down here. With that he started to tell me he couldnt take it any more, that he was mixed up in drugs, didnt have a job or a place to live.We only got a couple minutes into this when a police car pulled up at the end of the bridge which was about a half block away. The young man started to walk fast in the opposite direction down the sidewalk. I followed behind him. Within a matter of seconds another police car pulled right next to him with a screeching halt. The young man went for the fence. He made it as far as getting one foot to the top of the fence, just a push off away to his likely death when I leaped at him, wrapped my arms around his waist and pulled him down.

The police took hold of him, and one of the police officers looked at me and said thank you for being there. I told the police officer not to thank me but to thank the Lord because he had me come down there. He looked at me like  he thought he might have a wacko on his hands. The other two officers were busy handcuffing the young man ( proceedure I suppose ) when I walked over and asked if I could pray for him. They just looked at me and didnt say anything. So I just put my hand on his back and started to pray anyways. Now I had three officers that weren't quite sure what to do. They struggled between  continuing to cuff the young man or to bow there heads. They elected to just kind of stand there and stare at me while I was praying.

If there ever was a humorous moment in this whole thing that was it. I cried the rest of the way home thanking God for
his mercy and his love for the young man. The story dosn't end there. When I got to work on Monday it turned out a couple people from work had seen me on the bridge. They wanted to know what happened. I used it as an opportunity to lift up the Lord. Well, they started talking to other people in the company about it  when they found out another women in the company had made the phone call to the police! She didnt feel comfortable with the way he was sitting on the bridge so she called the police to be safe. She had no idea till that day that I  went down there. She said that she went to a pay phone to call 911
and the phone suddenly went dead. It took her another 3 or 4 minutes to get to another phone. I suddenly realized just how much God had his hand in this.

The reason God did not have me stop on the bridge is because the young man would have preceived this as a threat just like when the police pulled up and he might have panicked and jjumped. Instead I came along as a non threatening pedestrian. I only got to spend a couple minutes with the young man before the police came but I wouldnt have even been on the bridge if the phone would not have went dead. It is Gods desire that not one should perish. I dont know if they will put this on the internet or not but if they do I just know that there will be somebody reading this that will be struggling and feeling like God just dosn't care. God wants you to know that he does care.

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