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You are going to die. Are you ready?
Jesus said, "The glories of this realm last only a moment; the glories of the heavenly realm abide forever."
If you are not, you need to get ready and stay ready. Almost no one is truly ready. Almost no one is ready for the most serious and important thing that happens to them, that they know will happen, and is certain to happen soon. That is stupid, and it can be costly, because it could determine your eternal future.
People should learn the truth and the life ahead of time; then it does not matter how you take it, but a lot of people are going to have their only chance to learn it right when it happens. This is because it is human nature to put things off, especially any thoughts of death. Most people only face it when they have no other choice, and that is when it is actually happening. It is too late then.
We are the only animal that knows it is going to die. Thus, we are the only animal that can be ready for it. If we do not take advantage of the opportunity, we will die just like any other animal, and we will become an animal again in our next life.
Knowing the ultimate truth is going to be the only thing that matters when you die. If you do not know the truth and the life, you are not ready.
If you believe in a myth, you find out right away, because everything but the truth goes right out the window with the rest of your mind’s deceptions. All there is, is the truth and the life, and you either know it, or you do not.
You cannot remember what you believed when it happens. All mind truth disappears, abandons you at the last minute. The fear and surprise of your impending death will bring you to the NOW. Your mind disappears except for fear, and you begin to experience the present for the first time in your life. You will not recognize it, and you will fear it.
It is a bad way to go, but it is the way almost everyone goes. It is the way you are going to go if you do not get in touch with your spiritual-self, your immortal self before you die. If you wait until you are about to die, you waited too long.
From your perspective, your death is going to be the most unreal experience of your life, because it will be the first real experience of your life. You will be experiencing real life for the first time, and it will scare you.
Mixed in with all the fear, pain, and surprise is the realization that you are dying without ever living. In addition to all the rest of it, you die feeling like a fool. You will wish you could go back in time and study the subject, to do what you are doing now, only take it much more seriously.
Born again: When you die to your mortal mental-self before you die physically, you are born again as your spiritual immortal self in the body you are in now. You are beyond death before you go through the maelstrom of physical death.
No one lives happily ever after. Life ends in death, often in some horrible, disgusting and painful way. That is not happiness. The only way you can truly live happily ever after is to learn and know the truth and the life before you die.
Jesus said, "Take heed of the living one while you are alive, lest you die and seek to see him and be unable to do so.
From page 160 of The Present (with religion) at
http://www.truthcontest.com