How suddenly can a healthy, vigorous life end?
A life full of vigor, vitality, and everything can be suddenly gone in a split second. This happens on highways every day, and no one knows who will be next. The body can be gone at any moment, whether young, old, or in between.
Les teaches that one of these days this body, whether young, old, or in between, is suddenly going to be gone, and we will be clothed upon with that which is immortal. He points to recent world events where lives full of vigor, vitality, and everything were suddenly gone in a split second, noting it happens on highways every day and we never know who is next. This highlights the glorious prospect of a new body that will never again have pain, sickness, or a cold.