Repent Before Death!
"You will show me the path of life;
in Your presence is fullness of joy; at
Your right hand are pleasures forevermore."
Psalm 16:11
In April of last year, a British comedian died on stage after
making a joke about death. A fellow comedian paid tribute:
“That’s commitment to comedy.” People
joke about death,
sometimes as a way to avoid the obvious—they refuse to
accept this inevitability of death. Billy Graham made this
observation, “No one can outrun death. It will catch up to
all of us eventually.”
We will all face death. So we should prepare for it now—like the
psalmist, David, did. In Psalm 16, we find his confidence in God
even when faced with death. And he uses a beautiful interchange
of images: In life, David could not be shaken because God sat at
his right hand as his counselor (verse 8). In death, he would not
be moved because he would be at God’s right hand (verse 11).
He knew God would not abandon him to the grave (verse 10).
Instead, he would enjoy eternal pleasures and joy in His
presence (verse 11).
Better than a commitment to comedy about death is
a commitment to reality about life—and the eternal
pleasures that await those who die in the Lord.
"No man ever repented of being
a Christian on his death bed."
Hannah More
