We’re Going to Die, I Seek Salvation

You never know how close to death you are.

The smallest happenings could lead to your final moments on Earth.

This shouldn’t come as a surprise. Every day, pedestrians are run over, innocent bystanders are shot, healthy children die from the flu. Thousands of unsuspecting individuals join the ranks of the dead.

If the pedestrian had only been two feet farther right on the sidewalk. If the gunman had only had a loving childhood. If the children had only been kept from school on the day sickness was going around. The outcome would be so different.

Sometimes, these events don’t span out into death, but the potentiality is there. It’s so fine a line between health, safety and eternal rest.

You may have your own experiences of brushes with death. But the thing is, after these close encounters, once we are safe for a period of time, we completely forget those feelings of helplessness and fear. We lose the all-consuming desire to save ourselves, to do what we can in life to guarantee more time on Earth. Or an afterlife.

I, for one, want to know with absolute certainty what is going to happen to me after I die. Not my physical body, but my soul. I do believe that if you can say with absolute certainty that heaven awaits and that God will let you in, then death can’t be as scary as everyone makes it out to be.

Salvation is all we can reasonably strive for.