Jeremiah 20

Why did I come forth from the womb to see labor and sorrow,
That my days should be consumed with shame? v.18

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Even God's prophets can be discouraged and depressed at times.  It always breaks my heart when I hear people that have committed suicide or make comments that they wish they were never born.  Well those same thoughts Jeremiah voiced.  As he proclaimed God's message he was beaten and thrown into the stocks (v.2) and then his own people were seeking to trap and hurt him.  I don't know what's worse than your own family seeking your destruction.  He even tried to settle and go along with they ways of man than the ways of God, yet he couldn't keep quiet for the words of God burned within him (v.9).  Jeremiah was overwhelmed and discouraged by the flood of sin around him as he tried to proclaim and do what was right that he was ready to give up wishing he'd never been born to not have to face such hardship.  This is similar to Job's complaining too, but it is not one we should mimic but learn from.  Even the one that seems strongest in the Lord has deceitful thoughts of the heart and needs encouragement.
Is God's fire within you that you can't help but speak His truth or are you quenching the fire?  When you struggle with thoughts of wishing never to have been born, what keeps you holding on to life?  How can you speak words of truth to others that struggle with these thoughts?