What Happens to you When you Die?

What happens to you when you Die?

Death can be a terror for some people, but for those who lived a good life, and die in the grace of God, it doesn't have to be fearful. Jesus referred to it as sleep, but he didn't mean that the soul loses consciousness after death. For most people it is a seamless transition from one life to the next, where the soul now separated from the body awaits the resurrection in Christ. When we have lived a good life, conscious of God's forgiveness and love, death shouldn't be feared even though it still is fearful for most of us. The important thing is to be ready before it happens and we do this by being kind and forgiving people. The conscience is affected in the sense that we need to keep it clean and clear. Saying you are saved means you live with love and kindness. For those who die in God's grace, they will experience the Presence of God, maybe for the first time in their existence.

God's mercy is available to all people now and eternally and if we turn from it, He will turn from us at our death. "Anyone who has set aside the law of Moses dies without mercy on the evidence of two or three witnesses. 29 How much worse punishment, do you think, will be deserved by the one who has spurned the Son of God, and has profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has outraged the Spirit of grace?" Hebrews 10:28-29 | ESV.

God still is merciful however, and He won't turn you away if you trust him. Not everyone dies the same way. Some people choose to die outside of God's mercy and grace, when people do that, there is nothing the Lord can do. This is part of the reason why we are given a free will. "The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself." Ezekiel 18:20 | ESV God holds each soul responsible for their sins. Yes, you say Jesus is my Saviour, true, but God still holds you responsible. We need to be clean when we enter Heaven, even after Jesus forgives us, we can still sin! When we die in our sins, Christian or non-Christian this is called hell. The devil knows this, this is why it is still important to live a holy life even after you are forgiven!

When we die with our souls clean, we have communion with God even after death, and the greatest communion a soul can have after death is called the beatific vision. This is where the soul sees God face to face. "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." Matthew 5:8 | ESV. This means that we must live our lives with integrity now, if we want to be happy in the hereafter. This is Mike.

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