Prepared for Heaven

For you yourselves are fully aware that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. While people are saying, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. But you are not in darkness, brothers, for that day to surprise you like a thief. For you are all children of light, children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness. So then let us not sleep, as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober. - 1 Thessalonians 5:2-6

If we walk with the Lord we will be ready when he calls us home. If we are prepared, we will not fear death. Always be preparing yourself for heaven.

“…have I ever done so much to train up my son for the heavenly world, to fit him for the appearance before God, and saints and angels and for all the unknown services of that celestial country? Go on yet further, O impenitent sinners, and consider with yourselves what a blessedness it is to be prepared for heaven; for then you are prepared for death, and at once you take away all the terrors of it. O what an unspeakable happiness is it to pass through this world daily without the fear of dying?”

“Think of the victory over death, which is obtained by such a readiness for heaven, and how glorious a thing it is to meet that last enemy the king of terrors, and encounter him without fear, and to triumph over him with divine language, O death, where is thy sting? How joyful a scene would it be to take leave of all our friends in this land of mortality with an assured hope that we are entering into a happier climate and a better country, ready prepared for all the more glorious scenes that shall meet us in the invisible world?”

(Excerpts from The World To Come by Isaac Watts)