If I was to ask you what you think is the most valuable thing in the world,what would you say?. I suppose the air that we breath,the fresh water that we drink,the food that we eat,so many other things we could name,for many people it is sex ,a precious gift,if we keep within the bounds of what God permits. To the miser money is the most precious gift,but God says it is more precious to give than to receive.So we could on. I wonder whats most precious to God on planet earth? you are,Someone said ,'The soul of man is worth more than a thousand worlds'. Sad to say that most people do not value their soul at all,in fact they live as if they have no soul.What is the soul? William Hendriksen takes issue with those who say that man is composed of three parts,he says we have a two fold nature,that soul and spirit are interchangeable.The soul he points out is the immaterial and invisible element of our being,this can never be annihilated.(Read WH commentary on John Page 470ff)The value of mankind's soul is beyond price,so much so that Jesus laid down life to save them,John 3 v16.
'O teach me what it meaneth
The cross uplifted high.
With one the man of sorrows
Condemned to bleed and die
O Teach me what it cost Thee,
To make a sinner whole,
And teach me, Saviour teach me,
The value of a soul.
Lucy A. Bennett
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