I Am Terrified of Death

I'm not ready to stop existing.
I'm just not ready yet. Don't do this to me, please...

Lord, I believe, but help my unbelief.

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th3r0n · 41-45, M

How are you not ready for death? This world is awful and so is being mortal and weak.

You likely will not have enough time to die some other way before men are executed for not taking the mark of the beast.

Do not fear death, welcome it, for the life we have waited for comes after.

SW-User

@th3r0n ah, but it is part of my faith that I struggle in.

I was once an atheist and my heart is slow to trust Jesus fully in this aspect.

th3r0n · 41-45, M

@SW-User be careful of doubt, a time is coming in which doubt will lead to eternal flames.

You need to trust Jesus recklessly, there is no other hope that stands.

SW-User

@th3r0n Even Peter denied Christ three times. It does not justify a doubting heart, but it does show there is hope for a skeptic.

Though I agree... I know there are parts of me i have struggled to surrender to Jesus, most significantly the fear of death.

But this struggle has been answered in Romans 12

Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
Romans 12:1‭-‬2 NIV

th3r0n · 41-45, M

@SW-User I thought I was dying once, woke up with a horrible pain in my chest that I thought was a fatal heart attack.

I wasn’t actually worried for me at all, I was only worried for the ones I love that are not yet persuaded.

SW-User

@th3r0n
Oof. I woke up in the ER hooked up to an AED after visiting urgent care 30 minutes earlier. It was may 10, 2017, and my heart had failed due to minimal electrical activity since childhood.

My only memory of that time was praying, "God, don't let me doubt you, heal the part of me that doubts you before I die. I'm not ready to die, Give my body the strength to pull through that I may tell of your great love"

th3r0n · 41-45, M

@SW-User that’s beautiful. I was ready but it wasn’t my time, I think it would have been yours but God heard you.

I also had my car 180 on me at 60 mph with cars on one side of me and a bridge near to smash into. I prayed and time got really slow and I just gently guided my car off the road. Car wasn’t even damaged.