Perhaps you've read about the weathered tombstone in an old cemetery in Indiana that bears this epitaph:
Pause, stranger, when you pass me by; As you are now, so once was I, As I am now, so you will be, So prepare for death and follow me.
An unknown passerby read those words and etched this reply below them:
To follow you I'm not content, Until I know which way you went.
That passerby was right on. The most important thing to know about dying is “What follows death?”; Or to be more specific, “Where are you going?”; As we have seen, the Bible teaches that physical death means separation. But separation to what—or where? Where does the departed spirit of man go? The answer is very simple: to one of two eternal destinations.
Pause, stranger, when you pass me by; As you are now, so once was I, As I am now, so you will be, So prepare for death and follow me.
An unknown passerby read those words and etched this reply below them:
To follow you I'm not content, Until I know which way you went.
That passerby was right on. The most important thing to know about dying is “What follows death?”; Or to be more specific, “Where are you going?”; As we have seen, the Bible teaches that physical death means separation. But separation to what—or where? Where does the departed spirit of man go? The answer is very simple: to one of two eternal destinations.