Last words are important. Let that truth sink in. Last words are important.

East Side Baptist Church is a little country church down in Perry County, Mississippi. It is the church in which I was converted under the preaching of Brother Wiley Grissom, a fifth-grade educated pastor who preached the Gospel with power. The church is about 200 yards up the hill from our old home place. Behind it is a cemetery where I’ll be buried someday.

Mom and Dad—whom in my adult life I affectionately called, “Mutt” and “Co-bell”—they are buried there. Co-bell died five years ago; and Mutt three years ago—I still miss them. On Co-bell’s tombstone are the last words she spoke to Mutt from her deathbed, “I’ll see you.” On his tombstone is his response, “I’ll be there.” A great witness to their confidence in…