Mark 8:36  For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
A story is told of a man who loved old books. He met an acquaintance who had just thrown away a Bible that had been stored in the attic of his ancestral home for generations. “I couldn’t read it,” the friend explained. “Somebody named Guten-something had printed it.” “Not Gutenberg!” the book lover exclaimed in horror. “That Bible was one of the first books ever printed. Why, a copy just sold for over two million dollars!” His friend was unimpressed. “Mine wouldn’t have brought a dollar. Some fellow named Martin Luther had scribbled all over it in German.”  Just as the man in the story was unaware of the value of the priceless Bible he had discarded,  many today are unaware of the most valuable thing in this world, their own soul!  How much is a soul worth?  Our Lord deemed the soul worth giving His life for in order that He might redeem you and me.  This world is chasing everyday after those things which will eventually perish, while at the same time neglecting their never dying soul.  Everyone of us will live on somewhere forever.  Eternity is way too long to be wrong.  Please don’t neglect the most valuable thing you will ever possess,  your own soul.  To do so would be a huge mistake! 
  The wise person will commit their soul to Jesus for safe keeping.   Amen.  Pastor