A South African businessman who is called Dutoit died by suffocation on a sweet. He had swollowed this sweet the wrong way a few minutes after finishing his talk about the unpredictability of death. He just had encouraged his audience to entirely live the present moment. His last words were: "Tomorrow it may be to late!"

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Reading the Bible is a means of preparing oneself for the meeting with God

8th March

Tomorrow it may be to late

Prepare to meet your God Amos 4, 12

Yes, indeed how old are we when we die? Our speaker was less than fifty years old. Recently one of my neighbours buried his son who was twenty. Numerous children die every day. Even if the average of age has grown at our era we exactly know that death can strike suddenly. This is why we have to prepare ourselves.

prayer is a means of preparing oneself for the meeting with God

Am I prepared? Have I thought about the basic questions? Have I looked for the answers at the good source? In front of the doubts of the unbeliever the believer has certainties. God sends trials.

While there was a storm in the Northsea passengers of a ferry were terrified except for one believer who kept cool. A good speaker who just before had strongly maintained his convictions as an atheist challenged him: "Look and see how the boat bent! Ah, sir, it is terrible, we are going away!" The believer answered calmly: "Yes, we are going away but we are not on the same way!"

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