My thoughts on death are that we Christians ought not think of it too much. As F.B. Meyer wrote “Don’t dwell on it (death) overmuch, the same God who arranged your arrival into this world has planned your departure.”
Most certainly there are legitimate preparations to be made, as God told Hezekiah, “Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live.” But after this, we should come back to the land of the living in our thinking and ways, lest we become morbid.
God is the God of the living! He never intended for us to spend our lives living in a graveyard! A nurse who ministered to the terminally ill was asked what was the thing the dying regret most about their past life. She said one of the main things they say is, “I wish I had allowed myself to be happier.”
I think staying busy for God till the end is one secret of happy last days. If so, when He interrupts our lives with death we will depart joyfully. As one old Puritan put it, “Pray that thy last days, and last works may be the best; and that when thou comest to die, thou mayest have nothing else to do but die.”
There are two Bible illustrations I would like to use to show this truth of staying busy till the end. One is in the Old Testament the other in the New.
When Elijah was told he would be taken up, and he went on doing his ordinary work, visiting the schools of the prophets, etc. He did not spend the day in prayer or in any special preparation.
And Paul did the same. Read 2 Timothy if you doubt me. He was busy, busy, making plans, giving advice. They both finished their course with joy!
“Dying is just more of Christ!”~ Andrew A. Bonar
by an Old Disciple of Jesus Christ
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