Christ in me is to live; to die is to gain.
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If we give our deaths to the Lord, then we live. If we keep them ourselves, we die.
Refresh yourself daily with the contemplation of your death, was a bit of advice from the way of the sword.
Just go to India. You can wash in the Ganges as corpses drift by. That ‘enlightened’ appreciation of death that the demonic East enjoys.
Hebrews 2: 10In bringing many sons and daughters to glory, it was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists, should make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through what he suffered. 11Both the one who makes people holy and those who are made holy are of the same family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters.g 12He says,
I will declare your name to my brothers and sisters;
in the assembly I will sing your praises.
13And again,
I will put my trust in him.i
And again he says,
Here am I, and the children God has given me.
14Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might break the power of him who holds the power of deaththat is, the devil 15and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death. 16For surely it is not angels he helps, but Abrahams descendants. 17For this reason he had to be made like them, fully human in every way, in order that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, and that he might make atonement for the sins of the people. 18Because he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.
Thinking about ageing, let alone death, is a big no-no in the US.
Everyone here wants to be a kid forever - a fact reflected amply in society and politics - and many, if not most, folks prefer to act like teens right into their eighties.
“You must not procrastinate. Rather, you should make preparations so that even if you did die tonight, you would have no regrets. If you develop an appreciation for the uncertainty and imminence of death, your sense of the importance of using your time wisely will get stronger and stronger.” - Dalai Lama
Such as putting all the ethnic Nepalese into camps and exterminating the non-Bhutanese minorities in Bhutan.
“We have to be ready for the moment we cease to exist.
Sorry, Bhutan, but my existence does not cease with the death of my body. My spirit goes to be with the Lord.