"Where's thy soul?" This question was asked, not by a minister from the pulpit—not by a neighbor of his friend next door—not by a district visitor of some poor invalid at the point of death; the inquiry was addressed by a young man to himself!
A sturdy miner in the prime of health, he had reached manhood's estate pursuing "the common round" of a worldly life, wholly oblivious of spiritual things. He had never entered a church; he had never heard a sermon; he had never attended a prayer meeting; he "cared naught for those things."
One day, in the midst of his work, the news came that his mother had suddenly died. The shock almost stunned him; yet immediately the query flashed into his mind, "Where's her soul?"
It was an agonizing problem which he could not solve. While pondering it, fear and trembling came upon him. Another question rang in his ears as though it were a voice from heaven: "Where's thy soul?"
Conviction of sin followed; a season of darkness and a deep distress. Through ignorance of God's Word and of God's plan of salvation, weary months were spent in groping after a ray of hope. The anxious inquirer missed no opportunity from which instruction might be derived.
It was on a New Year's Day. Hoping to find help in making "good resolutions," the heart-hungry man slipped into a mission hall. There, in simple words he heard for the first time in his life the sweet story of God's love for sinful man. As he listened eagerly to the message, the One who knoweth the heart gave him the faith to receive the blessed Savior of sinners. He believed "the Word of reconciliation" and was enabled to rejoice in the knowledge of sins forgiven and salvation through the precious blood of Christ. To him that New Year's Day was the beginning of a new life and in the years that have since passed, he sings happily on:
"My hope on nothing less is built
Than Jesus, and the blood He spilled;
Though all around my soul give way,
He still abides my lasting stay."
The Lord will take care of your feet if you take care of your eyes for "He keepeth the feet of His saints."
“HE THAT HEARTH
MY WORD, AND
BELIEVETH ON HIM
THAT SENT ME,
HATH EVERLASTING LIFE,
AND SHALL NOT COME
INTO CONDEMNATION;
BUT IS PASSED FROM
DEATH UNTO LIFE.”