What is the most valuable asset you own? Is it your home, a vintage car? Perhaps it’s your investment portfolio?
According to Architectural Digest the most expensive property in the world is Buckingham Palace in London coming in at #1. Buckingham Palace is valued at $2 billion!
We place a lot of value on the things we own, don’t we?
But, the one thing you own, or rather have in your possession, that has immeasurable value is your SOUL.
You can look up plenty of celebrities in the entertainment industry, who have sold or exchanged their souls to darkness. Just as some people have exchanged the truth of God for the lie (Romans 1:25) many have exchanged their souls for something else that in eternity will not profit them.
“For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world, and forfeit his soul? “For what will a man give in exchange for his soul? - Mark 8:36-37
It saddened me to read about the death of the talented actor Michael K. Williams last week from a drug overdose. Although the actor battled some heavy issues with drugs, he was able to find redemption through a church in Newark.
Our soul is the most valuable asset we have.
In the end however, there was still a battle raging in the actor’s soul. To be sure, none of us are immune to this battle.
Even in the best of times as born again believers, our soul, can be at war within us.
My pastor, whose gifted in the area of speaking with people who need emotional healing, says this in regards to the battle of our soul:
“The Enemy can’t touch our spirit because our spirit goes home to be with the Lord. But our fight is with our soul, (our mind, our will and our emotions). We always have to fight in our soulish realm.” – Marc S. Bryant, Pastor
As I’ve said many times before in my posts, it doesn’t matter where you come from, who you are, how much money you have or where you attend church, even if you don’t attend church.
Our soul is the most valuable asset we have.
All of us have an Enemy that is literally hell bent on taking us down. He (Satan) always wants first bids for our mind.
The soul is the “real estate” in which the Enemy is aiming to take over.
But God!
But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed.
Isaiah 53:5
Whatever the wounds we may have, be it emotional or psychological, Jesus,the “suffering Servant” Isaiah speaks of in this verse is our ultimate cure.
Our soul is infinitely valuable to the Lord, who loved us literally to the point of death.
You may be going through in your soulish realm, but the Lord says to you today:
… I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul. – Jeremiah 31:25
What will you give an exchange for your soul? I pray your answer is NOTHING!
Be Encouraged!
Stephanie
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