"No one wants to die, Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life's change agent." Steve Jobs
The quote above is from Steve Jobs the CEO of Apple during a speech at Stanford University in 2005, where Mr. Jobs disclosed his illness and also gave insight into not wanting to die. If you believe that there is only this life and nothing after then you might not want to die or life could be so hard that you might just be ready to die, but I would also ask you to are you ready to die. It isn’t about wanting to die but rather being ready to die. Are you ready to die? are you ready to face every sin that you have committed not to another human being but before a Holy God? How are you looking at death as a destination or a ending of this life into another? Has anyone ever escaped death?
Mr. Jobs understands death as being a destination, but a destination would be an ending to this life and leave all those who have gotten way with it to not see justice. That would be unfair wouldn’t it? That would mean that morality is nothing at all because it doesn’t account for fairness. Death is the inevitable reality which will not just be a destination but a gateway unto eternal life for all, either for eternal paradise or eternal punishment. An ending or a passage from life to eternal life for this is a held belief by many who have a professed faith in a Holy God. A Holy God who requires holy people to enter into his kingdom.
We will never be holy on our own that is why Jesus came down to die and over come death on the cross for the sins of sinful people like myself and Mr. Jobs. That if we believe on Jesus and his work on the cross we will enter eternal life and escape the punishment that we so deserve. God being a gracious and merciful has giving us another option. All we need to do is believe and make a change that we can believe in to the betterment of the lives of ourselves and those we love. Are you ready to die?
