What's the Most Important Thing in Your Life?

        What is one of your most important possessions?   For me, one of the most important possessions might be something that I use everyday.  It may not depend upon the value of the item, but it is something that is very useful to me.  One of the first things I do when I get up in the morning is make a pot of coffee.  There have been times when the old coffee pot broke and I had to turn to using "instant" coffee or other unsuitable methods.  Each of us may have possessions that are different but important to us as we conduct our lives in this world.  When God made man and woman, He did a marvelous thing.   Genesis 2:7 says, " And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul."  
       The word "soul" must be important as it is mentioned about 459 times in the Bible.  The above verse is the first use of the word in the Bible but notice what is said about the soul in the New Testament.   Matthew 16:26 says, "For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?"  This should change your perspective in regard tot he soul.  You could accumulate all of the worth of the world and end up at a loss in the end but you forfeited your own soul.  The broad way that leads to destruction is filled with people who are trying to gain the wealth of the world and to scoop in as much as they can before they die thinking that this will make the look like a successful person in the end.  We well know that they cannot take it with them once they pass on from this life, but they still have that desire to get more and more and more.  They may not have exchanged their soul for the wealth or things of the world, but they have forgotten to take care of the greatest thing that matters in all of the world, their own soul.  Having a Mr. Coffee pot with you in your casket just doesn't do any good.  When God mentions the soul so many times in the Scriptures, should make us realize that it is important.  Where we spend eternity is important and there are only two choices.  We either end up in heaven with God or we end up in hell without God.  We can choose in this life where we will spend eternity.  For many, their choice is driven by the wealth of the world.  Once we realize just how lost we are, we can make that choice to believe in the finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ on the cross at Calvary.  It was the Lord Jesus Christ Himself that made the statement in Matthew 16:26 and it is perhaps a rhetorical question as the answer is obvious.  A man or woman who seeks to gain the whole world at the end have no profit.  It would not do them any good.  It would be useless and they would have forfeited that which was the most important, their own soul.  Praise God today that He has prepared the Way of Salvation.