Let’s suppose a believer in your family members passed away. What kind of emotions will you have? Thousands of emotion will crowd in the mind. However, melancholy is not the only feeling that Christians would have in this situation because the death is the entrance to entering the eternal life with God. George Swinnock stresses the significance of preparing for the moment of the death and how Christians should prepare it. The book is worthy to read for unbelievers as well as Christians because preparing the death is the serious issue of salvation. The book is the powerful trigger to examine the issue of the soul. As comparing thesis and antithesis, the author delivers his message obviously. Also, numerous examples and descriptions are helpful to understand his point. However, attentive reading would be required for the readers to digest the doctrines of Christianity in descriptive narrations of the book due to the accurate understanding of the doctrines. The author introduces the Psalm 73: “My flesh and my heart fail; But God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever” (verse 26). The author highlights that all sinners easily forget God and worship themselves and earthly things only. Therefore, he exhorts 3 motives to awake the sense about the death to the sinners. Firstly, ‘Death will come certainly’. Nobody can avoid facing the moment of the death. Secondly, ‘Death may come suddenly’. This very day could…show more content… “For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?” (Matt. 16:26). Christ died for Christians to deliver them from the death and to give the eternal life. However, as the author points out, even Christians easily forget this precious truth. They forget that God can call them tonight. They concern about a variety of earthly matter without thinking about the eternal life with God. To think about the death is useful to reflect the identity of
