How Do I Prepare for Death? Spiritual Preparations
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Each one of us will die if the Lord should tarry. But we must not wait until the end of this life to ready ourselves—preparation begins now. Today, Guy Waters provides five ways to prepare ourselves spiritually for death.
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Meet Today’s Teacher:
Guy Waters is the James M. Baird Jr. Professor of New Testament at Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson, MS, and a teaching elder in the Presbyterian Church in America.
Meet the Host:
Nathan W. Bingham is vice president of media for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, and host of the Ask Ligonier podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Our fellowship in this world is imperfect at best. |
| 0:04.5 | We are all sinners. |
| 0:06.0 | That fellowship in that assembly is wonderful. |
| 0:09.7 | No sin. |
| 0:10.9 | Only holiness and joy in the Lord. |
| 0:14.3 | And of course, the best thing of all is that we enter straight into the presence of God |
| 0:19.7 | to be with our Savior. |
| 0:27.2 | While it is important to honor God in our grief and to care for those who are grieving |
| 0:32.5 | or facing death, it is vital that you and I are prepared for our own deaths, and that's what we'll be |
| 0:39.3 | considering today on this Wednesday edition of Renewing Your Mind. The thought of death can lead |
| 0:46.6 | many to worry, fearing the unknown and wondering, will I finish well? Will I die well? In a message that I found immensely helpful, |
| 0:56.0 | here's Guy Waters, with five thoughts on how we as Christians should prepare for the end of our lives. |
| 1:03.0 | To begin, we want to think about preparing ourselves spiritually for death. |
| 1:13.1 | We may think that preparing ourselves spiritually for death |
| 1:17.3 | would be the work of a few weeks, maybe months, |
| 1:22.1 | before the time of our death. |
| 1:24.4 | But in reality, the scripture tells us we prepare our whole lives for death. But in reality, the scripture tells us we prepare our whole lives for death. And so much of |
| 1:33.7 | what we're going to be thinking about touches on the very heart of the Christian life. Living the |
| 1:39.7 | Christian life well is the best way to prepare yourself for death whenever it comes. |
| 1:48.6 | So how does that work in our lives? What does that look like in concrete terms? And I want to |
| 1:56.8 | offer five thoughts on how we day to day, year to year, prepare ourselves for death. |
| 2:05.9 | And the first thing that we should be doing is attend to the means of grace. |
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