The four last things: heaven, hell, judgement, and death are to be reflected upon with love, not fear.
How can we do this?
Heaven is the easy one, the ultimate expression of God’s love is that he desires to spend eternity with us.
Hell is ultimately about our refusal to accept God’s love. God never rejects his own, so its up to us, we are free to enter into his loving embrace or not.
Judgement is perfect mercy and perfect justice coming together. We can’t conceive how this is possible except to look upon the Cross of Christ. Imagine the eternal Father seeing you in and through his own Son and smiling with delight.
And lastly, death is the great release from the pain and limitations of the body. It can also be a fearful letting go of all that is beautiful in this physical world. It is the final frontier of our journey. We should not think of Death as an ending but as part of life itself, and the two are really one, one cycle, one journey of learning to let go, and allowing ourselves to become one with God.
It is Love, not fear that beckons us to contemplate these last things.