We need to be ready to die. Anyone who has never known faith and the safekeeping of counting on God, who has not loved like God loves and has not had the joy of hopeful prospects given by God has nothing that will be with them throughout death except their own guilt. Death vaporises everything except faith and hope and love so we cannot be ready for it without having those things in our lives. If we have those things then we can be ready. The coming of the Son of Man will be a similar elimination of all but faith and hope and love. Readiness for it requires having them in our lives.
