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Articles: My Thoughts | | PERFECT PREPERATION FOR DEATH | |
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| I found some mistakes. So i wanted to post the corrceted one...
For a man, his beginning is from his mother’s womb, and his ending is into the tomb. He enters into this world with empty hands, and he leaves this world with the same empty hands. In between this he has to fight a great fight against poverty, riches, sorrow, pain, agony, temptations, wisdom and many other earthly things. But one thing for sure is he has to die one day or the other. No matter how rich, wise, powerful or healthy he may be. But it is sure that nothing of these can save him from death. But believe that all this applies only to the body but not to the spirit. So in spite of thinking how to avoid death, it is good for a man to think of, how to prepare for death?
I observed the final days of an elderly man who is my relative. He came to know that he will die with in two more months. So he just wanted to make everything set right for his family. So he worked hard restlessly for those two months for solving a court case on their property and finally won the case and shared the property to his wife and two daughters and at last he passed away. I heard about the final days of a cancer patient who strongly believes in god. When he came to know that he will die within a month or so, he never worried about, how his wife or children may survive after his death. But the only thing he did is, every minute up to his last minute is, he cried unto lord for their salvation. Daily he used to call each one of the family members near to his bed and used to request them with tears to keep trust in lord and not to forsake his love. He finally made sure that they will never forsake lord and at last he passed away. Now I want to put a question to you, that whose case is right??? Both of them are having burden about their family members, that how they may live without their presence. Both of them struggled hard in their end days. But one struggled hard physically while the other struggled hard spiritually. But whose case do you feel is the blessed one in the sight of god???
I don’t know how many of you people believe about life after death. But as a believer and follower of scriptures I strongly believe about it. The life on this earth is temporary or short where as the life after death is the eternal one. The earth on which we are living is the temporary world where as the heaven into which we are going to enter is the eternal world. So in order to attain that eternal life, one should prepare himself to loose this temporary life. In order to have reward in that eternal world, one should prepare himself to loose the rewards in this temporary world.
“For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it. For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? – Mark 8: 35-36”.
Jesus himself speaks these words to his disciples, when they tried to object him as he told that he is going to die on the Cross of Calvary. These words bring forth a gospel for us that. Those who ever try to save their temporary life in this temporary world by their own ways and own effort are going to loose their eternal life in the eternal world. Also it makes no use for a man to gain the whole world and loose that eternal life. And no man exchange or save his life by paying anything.
“Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you. – Mathew 5: 11-12”.
These words spoken by Jesus tells us that how much we undergo persecuted or put to suffering by people for his sake and for the sake of righteousness in this temporary world, that much reward we are increasing for ourselves in the eternal world. Also how much and what ever we loose for the sake of righteousness and for the sake of our fellow members that much reward we are gaining in the eternal world. AS WE GAIN THIS REWARD IN THE ETERNAL WORLD, THEN WE CAN BE SURE THAT WHEN WE DIE, WE ARE NOT GOING WITH OUR HANDS EMPTY. WE ALREADY EARNED AND DEPOSITED SAFELY SOME PROPERTY FOR US IN THE ETERNAL WORLD, IN WHICH WE ARE GOING TO LIVE FOREVER.
So dear friends, when you are sure that you gained your reward in the eternal world, you would never worry or fear for death. And also you can make sure that you are not leaving with your hands empty. So this is the PERFECT PREPERATION FOR DEATH. So dear friends let us prepare ourselves in this manner and help our fellow companions also to get prepared. If we prepare ourselves and our dearest companions in this manner, we can at least feel happy that their spirit rests in peace in the eternal world, when they leave us or they will feel the same about us when we leave them. Sorry if this word hurts you.
I specially thank god, praise him and adore him for revealing this secret for me through the spirit and through scriptures and also for granting the privilege of sharing these words with you. May god bless these words, and also the friends that read this portion. Hope that he will help us and guide us for the Perfect Preparation.
Posted by: Jonnalagadda Jonnalagadda At: 30, Jun 2003 5:40:19 PM IST
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