Tuesday, April 7, 2009

What is the value of a soul?

One of the demonic tools most used today is distraction. Satan tempts us in every area of our life to take our eyes off of Jesus and to put it on something temporal. Satan tempts us to take our eyes off of other people and instead attach them to something superficial and fading. Oh, that we would see the value of a soul and live accordingly.

The value which God attaches to the soul appears from the fact that He gave His only begotten Son to save it. Would he bear so patiently with our ingratitude, our hardness of heart, and our rejection of Jesus, if He did not see the excellency of our souls and earnestly desire to snatch them from eternal burnings? Would he not leave us to sink into perdition? Would He so pathetically cry, "How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? how shall I deliver thee, Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah? how shall I set thee as Zeboim?" How earnestly God pleads with us to be saved. Has he not warned us by the horrors of hell, and allured us by the happiness of heaven? Has He not said He takes no pleasure in our death? Has He not brought every motive from the universe, from Himself, to bear upon our minds, in urging the value of the soul? ES Taylor


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