Religiouscel here.
When i was in my late 20s (i'm in my 40s now, btw), there was a point where i thought my life was over. Not in an hyperbolic sense, but truly over. I was in complete and utter despair, and i was contemplating suicide, but then something hit me. It was like a revelation, a kind of realization not so much that there was a life and a reality above this one but the sudden realization there's could not be anything BUT a life and a reality above this one.
The atheist position is simply nonsensical. Their point of view is that everything is relative which means this world hinges on an absolute nothing, which also implies that this relativity is absolute as well which is a flat out contradiction. If you really think about it, if you free yourself of the peer pressure to believe the atheist position is the "intelligent" one, you'll realize just how much of a fool you have been to believe it:
Relativity can only hinge on the existence of an absolute something, and that something can only be God. Once i realized that all my terror and despair kinda of vaporized. Everything i thought to be lost, all the happiness i "missed out" in this life which i knew was forever out of my reach now, because of the hopelessness of my situation, the loss of that magical period we call youth etc, suddenly none of it mattered because i knew that none of that was truly lost. That special happiness you always dreamed about but you were never able to obtain exists outside of this world, and has been there for eternity. Nothing that happens in this life down here can destroy it, nothing can touch it.
With that realization in mind, all the suffering i experienced in this life ceased to really matter. It didn't entirely disappear, but i no longer despair because of it, because i know for a fact there's going to be light at the end of the tunnel, and all my suffering now comes from my inability to stay on the path towards salvation. It's only when i commit a sin that i feel the suffering and despair return. Whenever i manage to stay on the path i have this contentment and detachment which makes all my troubles down here seem unimportant.
So yes, i believe God supports me and makes me able to endure any suffering, but that support is conditional. You have to follow his way, or you'll be back to the despair and the terror.
