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I remember Aunt Bernice very well. She was a quiet lady who lived simply, and for the Lord. She was saved as a teenager, and exhibited godly piety all the years of her life.
I will never forget standing by her bedside as she gently drew her last breath, a smile crossed her lips, and I knew she was safe home. “Absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord” (2 Corinthians 5:8).
As I stood there, I thought of another soul who had passed into eternity earlier that week in the same hospital ward. He was a man who had been a fine, upstanding citizen in the town I live in. His reputation as a husband, father, business man and philanthropist was impeccable. But he was not saved. The wails that filled that hospital ward I will never forget. He was in agony, not so much physically, but emotionally, as he realized he was facing eternity.
What a contrast! I don’t believe the man was ever saved, and as far as we know went into a lost eternity. What about you? Remember Job’s question: “But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?” (Job 14:10). Where will you be?