If we embrace the reality of death before we die we can experience the life God wants us to have. However, we must listen to God and his words of truth. Without the Bible's truth in our lives, there is an absence of beauty. Without the Bible's conception of pleasure, we would construct our own, and it will always be driven by a selfish understanding of pleasure that will constantly narrow in around us. We need the word of truth to diagnose and push out the lies that will always lead us astray and to a dead end life.