To Prepare To Die Is To Prepare To Live

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This morning in I read these words in the book of Ezekiel 7:6,
"An end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for thee; behold,
it is come." Though  this had to do with the nation of
Israel, my eyes zeroed in on the words regarding there being "an
end." In fact, five times it is declared "an end is come." It
struck me that there is an end to all things and everything. I
thought about ancient civilizations that no longer exist because
an end came for them. There have been nations that once stood as
great earthly mountains that were overthrown. An end came for
them. They no longer exist. There have been great rulers and
kings, whose end came and they no longer exist. As well as
individuals who once lived and whether good or bad, and end came
for their earthly mortal existence. 


There are people everyday making their plans for something a year
or decades from now, even tomorrow, and their end will suddenly
come. Believers lightly toss out this saying, "tomorrow is
promised unto no man." Yet there is nothing that speaks or shows
that they believe it. What would happen if we began to live as
though we can be called home at any time? There are people
everyday that are entering into eternity and were not prepared.
They took everything for granted. They died, and in the eternal
state everything they ever said and did, is now and forever
sealed.  "The dead praise not the Lord, nor any that go down
into silence." 


This is not a game. How we are living our lives is going ahead of
us into heaven being recorded. This is not a call to live in a
some morbidity of a religious, joyless state. Rather it is a
question proposed to you today that must be taken into serious
consideration.  Are you ready to enter into eternity at a
moment's notice? What are you prepared to carry over the water's
edge? The edge of eternity? There is an expected end for the
righteous. In Ecclesiastes 11:3 it says, "... and if the tree
fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where
the tree falleth, there it shall be." Meaning, what we are when
we die, the state and condition we are in, is what we will be
forever. Like molten iron poured into mold and cooled.
  


"Death comes to the ungodly man as a penal infliction, but to the
righteous as a summons to his Father's palace. To the sinner it
is an execution, to the saint an undressing from his sins and
infirmities. Death to the wicked is the King of terrors. Death to
the saint is the end of terrors, the commencement of glory."
Charles Spurgeon