Living in God's Glory

snuffed out, and after death, you will find yourself in utter darkness. THE BEGINNING, NOT THE END Everyone is constantly making plans for the life he will lead tomorrow, but only when death strikes at lightning speed does he finally understand that his ‘tomorrow’ will be—not in this world—but the next, eternal world. on July 18, 1981, a railway guard named Jabir husain set off on his last official journey on the railways. on the following day, his long period of service would be over. With a great sense of pleasurable anticipation, he contemplated the life of retirement that stretched before him—a life of ease with the freedom to do exactly as he pleased. as he set off on this last journey, he said with great satisfaction to his colleagues, “From tomorrow, i shall be starting on a new life!” For this journey, these prophetic words were his last in more senses than one. The express train on which he was travelling was a mere sixty kilometres away from its destination when it collided with a goods train, and Jabir husain was killed outright. Commenting on fate’s irony, a railway official said, “Just another sixty kilometres and it would have been the end of his official journey.” (Indian Express, July 18, 1981) Who does not picture a long and eventful life for himself? Everyone thinks that he will reach some tremendous and