We all experience the loss of loved ones as they leave this earthly life and step into eternity. It is a part of our existence that we cannot escape. My first experience of losing someone really close was when my first husband went to heaven. Death became starkly real in a way I had never experienced before.
Though thinking about death can be unpleasant, it is something to which we should give attention, no matter our age. God, being omniscient, knows when each of us will leave this world. We don’t.
There are important decisions to be made before our last moment arrives. We need to make preparations for the family we leave behind. But more importantly, spiritual preparation needs to be made to ensure that we attain eternal life.
Heaven and Hell are real places. And what you decide in the here and now will determine where you go when you die. Your decision should not be put off into a future that you may not have.
The Word of God tells us that becoming a follower of Jesus is the only way to eternal life. Please choose to make Jesus the Lord of your life while you still have the opportunity!
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For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. (John 3:16)
And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. (1 John 5:11)
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 6:23)