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Epitaphs “But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?” (Job 14:10). On the grounds of Chillingham Castle, Northumberland, in northeastern England, there is a graveyard with a tombstone bearing the following inscription: Go home my friends, dry up your tears; I must lie here till Christ appears. We call these inscriptions, “epitaphs,” and I am wondering what could be written on your gravestone if you were to die. Could those who took care of your burial and the placing of a tombstone on your grave put something that indicated that you were with the Lord Jesus in Heaven? I recall another epitaph of someone I knew very well and whose funeral I had the privilege of preaching. It simply says: “I’m Home!” Death and eternity are real! Are you ready? Could loved ones put on your headstone: “Absent from the body … Present with the Lord” (2 Corinthians 5:8)?
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