The end of man is not death, for after death is the judgment, but man seldom glances forward even to the first hour after his spirit has left his body. How few can say what that hour will be to them! A thick darkness hangs over the last moments of their lives; a darkness thicker still over eternity.
But the Christian's joy is to look onward and, in the words of the Bible, to say what eternity will be for him: "With Christ; which is far better." Phil. 1:2323For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better: (Philippians 1:23).