There’s no middle ground, purgatory, or second chances. Once we die, then we face judgement. People will either die and immediately be in the loving, gracious presence of Jesus, or immediately be under the judgement of God.

It’s no secret that we are all going to die. Like Ray Comfort explains in each of his evangelistic encounters, “10/10 die.” No one is going to escape death, unless Jesus returns first.

As such, we must reckon with death; we ought to give thought to our own death even if it’s deemed “morbid” or too dark. Death is coming for us eventually, so we should think about it. But we also must understand something else. What is the condition of our soul when death comes for us? Or what are dying “in”?

“There are only two ways of dying,” the late RC Sproul wrote¹, “We can die in faith or we can die in our sins.”

If we die in faith, we are dying in Christ. We are totally and completely united with Him in life and in death. There’s no fear of death, no need to be afraid of what lies after the grave. We have peace with God through Jesus Christ and are secure in Him by faith—no more condemnation (Romans 8:1). This faith is not our own, it was given to us by God as a gift (Ephesians 2:8-9). So even as why die in faith, we have no room to boast in that faith, but only in the perfect work of Jesus Christ on our behalf. As we breathe our final breathe, as we die in faith, we can know that we will spend eternity worshiping God.

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