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Prepare
“Prepare to meet thy God” (Amos 4:12).
As life goes by, we become very busy in the course of normal events — and don’t think that it slows down any as you get older. But sometimes the unexpected intrudes into our “normal” lives, with results that could not have been foreseen. This is why it is so important to be prepared to leave this world at a moment’s notice. We need to be prepared for eternity like those tiny creatures, of which Solomon wrote, “The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer” (Proverbs 30:25).
Here is one incident that proves this point:
In Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1983, a poodle named Cachi fell 13 stories and landed on a woman’s head. The poodle and the woman died instantly. Another woman who was standing on the edge of a crowd that had stopped in the middle of the street to watch what was happening died instantly when hit by a bus. A man who saw both events had a heart attack and died on the way to the hospital.
Where would you be if you had been one of these three persons? Heaven or Hell?
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