A BOY was driving an evangelist home from a meeting where he had been preaching Christ as the Saviour of sinners. The boy was telling the evangelist how he was getting on at school and they had got as far as “profit and loss.”
“Oh,” said the preacher, “I’ll give you a calculation in profit and loss: ‘What shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?’ " Mark 8:3636For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? (Mark 8:36).
The boy was silent. He had never attempted that calculation. But the “word in season” proved to be a nail fastened in a sure place, and led him to think seriously of salvation and the need of his never-dying soul. Not long after he turned to the Lord and found Christ as his Saviour.
ML-11/18/1962