Prepare for Death and Follow Me
Illustration
by Michael P. Green

An Indiana cemetery has a tombstone over a hundred years old that bears this epitaph:

Pause, Stranger, when you pass me by,
As you are now, so once was I.
As I am now, so you will be,
So prepare for death and follow me.

An unknown passerby had read those words and scratched this reply below them:

To follow you I’m not content,
Until I know which way you went.

The passerby was right, the important thing about death is what follows. Where are you going?

Baker Books , 1500 Illustrations for Biblical Preaching, by Michael P. Green