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Are You Ready to Die?

“And it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment” (Hebrews 9:27).

Approximately every twenty-two seconds someone in this country dies. In the time it will take you to read this brief message more than two hundred deaths will have occurred worldwide.

Death is one appointment we will all keep – we will all die.

There will be no cancellations. We’re going to die, and it could happen at any time. It could be soon, or it could be years away, but one thing is sure, there will be no escape! Yet, most of us live as though death will always be something that happens to others, but never us. Death is not just a possibility, it is a certainty. Our preparation for it should be the highest priority of life. As a matter of fact, we cannot really begin to live until we are ready to die.

However, there are skeptics who would have us believe that this life is all there is.

Their philosophy of “eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow we die” is followed by millions. They bow at the altar of evolution and worship the god’s of humanism and modernism. They would have us believe that this is it. “You only go around once, so you better grab all the gusto you can get!” Those who subscribe to this philosophy live for themselves and they die without hope.

Jesus Christ came to offer something better.

He came that “we might have life” and that we “might have it more abundantly” (John 10:10). He came to show us the way to God (John 14:6). He came to tell us that there is life after life, that God’s gift is eternal life through Him (Romans 6:23). He offers salvation to all them that obey Him (Hebrews 5:9). He gives us a reason to live, and hope in death. “For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain” (Philippians 1:21).