Ian McCormack was a young atheist surfer who lived a carefree, sinful lifestyle and had no fear of God, believing life was only about pleasure. One night while diving in Mauritius, he was stung multiple times by deadly box jellyfish, and as his body shut down, he had a near-death experience. He described being pulled toward complete darkness—a terrifying place of separation—where he realized he was entering a reality without God, the very consequence of a life lived without Him. In that darkness he remembered his mother’s faith and cried out, “God, forgive me!” Immediately he saw a bright, overwhelming light filled with love, which he recognized as Jesus. Jesus showed him that people end up in the darkness not because God sends them there, but because they live rejecting Him. Ian returned to life completely transformed, later becoming a Christian minister, teaching that true ‘fear of the Lord’ is not terror, but the sobering awareness that God alone holds our eternity and that life without Him leads to real spiritual destruction.