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“For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul” (Mark 8:36).
It is a serious thing to think of eternity, for we spend only a short time in this world, and we will spend all eternity in one of two places. How many people there are who are using their time and energy to get things in this world, and yet are not paying any attention to their salvation?
Here in our verse today the Lord Jesus calls attention to this neglect. No matter how much money we may have, or how much fame, how much power in this world, we must leave it all behind someday. It will not mean much in eternity. There are many who have lived in this world, and whose names are now famous in history. Yet the question continues to haunt the memory of them — where is their soul?
To lose my wealth is much; to lose my health is more:
To lose my soul is such a loss, that no man can restore.
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