I am ready to die
There is this set of students that whenever I want to punish or beat them for any offence that they have committed, they will begin to beg and say a particular kind of prayer that will make you weak to flog them. Prayers like 'you will not die', 'you will not die young ', 'your mummy will not die', 'you will have money', 'God will bless you' and so on. My response to them has always been that if God says it is time, no prayer can prevent my death.
What is death? Death means different things to different people. For a person who obeys the word of God in totality, death is just a changing room where the soul robes itself in immortality. It is a transition from this evil and corrupt world to an eternity with God in heaven where there is neither pain nor suffering.
But for an individual who is an enemy of God, death is just a transition from this world to an eternity with Satan in hell fire where the fire is never quenched and the worms never die.
The believer is never scared of death. In fact, he or she will be happy to leave this world of suffering to be with God; only that we cannot commit suicide because if we do, we cannot see God. Are you scared of death? There is a solution to that fear. All you need to do is to confess your sins to God and promise not to go back to them anymore. Then, you will have a clean record before God because He will use the blood of Christ to wash all your sins away. You will not be afraid to see God anytime any day.
As a believer of something beyond, yes we trust and surrender our life to the One who created us. Will He really left us all hanging or burning below? Would that be the reason why we needed to be saved? Thanks be to the One who never left us.