Gordon was dying and knew it. God had blessed him with a long, productive life but he knew the end was at hand.
The doctor in the Grand Rapids hospital emergency room asked if he wanted efforts to be made to revive him if he passed into eternity. “No,” he told the doctor in the presence of his wife Lois. “I’m going to be with Jesus.”
Those were the last words Gordon spoke in this world in June 2025, and they speak volumes about his faith — not in his own goodness, but in the goodness of God and the faithfulness of God’s promises…