ARE YOU READY? Three Steps to Be Sure!

Are we really meant just to live this short little life and then be destroyed like the trilobites and dinosaurs? Incidentally, the dinosaurs are gone, but they're not completely out of the picture. (Paleontologists tell us that proteins seventy million years old, recently taken from a Tyrannosaurus Rex' remains, show a close kinship with chickens!) Are we, with all we know, still destined to live a little and then die like frozen birds? There is too much evidence from all parts of the world and from many cultures to believe we do not live on after our lives on earth are done.

Perhaps Earth is really a teaching place, a laboratory, where we are meant to learn how to love one another while living according to rules of behavior that have been proved beneficial. Wherever we look, we see too much nurtured life so beautiful it moves us, to believe that our lives exist simply because of the accidental occurrence of myriads upon myriads of coincidences. God proves throughout creation that He loves us; the beauty of His creativity delights us at every turn. He seems to want us to advance in goodness and appreciation of beauty. And occasionally He brings people back from near-death experiences, who, after glimpsing heaven, never fear death again.

We know that, in any case, we are going to go through death. Every person does. Will it be natural? In old age? Or will it come unexpectedly, in a nuclear war or from a wayward asteroid? Trusting in an all-powerful God, I also believe in God's judgment of us shortly after death, like school kids getting their report cards. This book is an account of my effort to "Get ready" for that moment. Believing that God is the Creator of everyone on earth, my hope is that each person on this planet will also make a sincere best effort to "get ready" to meet the wonderful Being who is the Creator of all of us.

This book is about facing even an unexpected death with the confidence of enjoying a continuous joyful afterlife.