I am not worried about what if I am wrong. Worst case scenario, Jesus is at the other side, waiting to help us make the crossing!
I am born again and washed in the blood of the Lamb. Yet I am terrified of dying. I know not why.
The worst part of dying is the possibiltity that your friends won’t be there.
Perhaps because you have yet to understand that in dying we are born to eternal life. I didn’t need to be ‘’born again’’. I have always known that Jesus Christ is The Son Of God.
Not worried about the dying, but about the process.
Why?...You began living forever the day he saved you...he took the “sting” out of death...now it’s only a shadow.
You’re not alone. Trust me.
Paul said, "To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. No time element differential.
too young to let go
The comedian Fred Allen once said “This is only the intermission. The big show is yet to come”
I am, too. And goodness knows I’m not worthy and only He decides. But I have requested that He take me on a grand tour of His entire creation. I would so love that!
Death is not natural. Not the way things were supposed to be. Death made Jesus cry.
To those of us who are born again all will be OK, but the death part is scary.
My Sweet Hubby of 45+ years went home to the Lord on May 16th. While camping last year a mansion on wheels pulled up next to our humble little trailer and when the owner asked, "Where's your real home?" Sweet Hubby replied with a big smile, "Why Heaven, of course."
Dear friend in Christ, your real home is in Heaven, of course. The LORD knows the story of your life and the wonderful news is that for who Jesus Christ as their Savior the story ends with, " and they lived happily ever after."
Mat 7:14 "Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it."Mat 25:46 "Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me."
Mat 22:14 "For many are called, but few are chosen."
Mat 25:46 "And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal"
Because you have your original sin nature as well, and that naturally fears God and good, and you know what death is all about. You know its not natural, ie it was not the way it was supposed to be, and not pleaant. You know what comes after death.
Feel that way too at times. But then I am reminded that He tells us to “fear not, for I am with you...” And then I like to focus on the parade of loved ones who hopefully will be there to greet me!
I am too.
Yet I am terrified of dying.
I'm not.
I am not worried about what if I am wrong. Worst case scenario, Jesus is at the other side, waiting to help us make the crossing!
We know this world, as unpleasant as it is and can be. We are at least familiar with it and can manage it to some degree.
We know what we’ve been told in Scripture about what is beyond death, but it’s still really a great unknown and we naturally fear what we don’t know.
I feared death, too, until I came too close to dying for comfort.I don’t fear it now.
Not looking forward to the process, but when the time comes, you will have peace and God will take care of the fear.
Any fear is from the enemy, FWIW.
You are human just a Jesus Christ in His time on earth in flesh was in human body. Read Luke {the physician} account of Jesus in the garden before His arrest. Luke ch 22 starting at verse 39. Jesus knew His eternal destination. Jesus knew He was to suffer a very agonizing & painful physical death on the cross. He knew death had no power over Him. Yet His own spirit was so troubled that in His third prayer He sweated blood.
On to the cross and what happened there. Jesus uttered the words "My GOD, My GOD, why has Thou forsaken me?" Jesus fear was separation from The Father. Something He had never experienced happened on the cross because GOD could not look upon the sins placed upon Him which were our sins.
The fear is natural. Our carnal minds can not quite grasp the spiritual transformation which occurs at death. We only know The Father through our earthly senses and earthly mind and body. The next life to us is an unknown at this point to us just as separation from GOD was unknown to Christ. Good News. He overcame death, hell, and the grave. Our last breath her in these bodies is our first one in our spiritual bodies in the presence of The Lord. Fear is natural. Just believe. Jesus did as much hanging on the cross. Jesus even though He certainly knew what His future was still feared the unknown to Him which was those few hours of separation from The Father. Christ will be there waiting on the other side when we pass from this life.
I’ll welcome death when God calls. It’s like falling asleep.
Pray that God reveals the eternal TRUTH to you so you know what your death ultimately means for you. Oh death, where is your sting!
God will reveal it to you if you ask.
I’ll pray for you.