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With the Lord
I got a call last night that a very dear friend of mine had died, or in the language of Scripture, was now “absent from the body, and … present with the Lord” (2 Corinthians 5:8). For those left behind, it is sadness, and rightly so, but for Chris, who knew the Lord Jesus Christ as his Saviour, it is an arrival home, and to be in the conscious sense of the Lord’s presence, of which we read, “in Thy presence is fulness of joy” (Psalm 16:11).
Suppose I had received a call last night telling me of your death. Would we have to wonder where your soul was, and whether you were going to spend eternity in heaven or hell? It is a very serious matter, and just because you are young does not mean you have a great deal of time to think about it and prepare. I have no doubt that there will be many procrastinators in a lost eternity … many who put it off, and put it off … many who neglected … many who waited until it was too late. The Word of God entreats us, “Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them” (Ecclesiastes 12:1).
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