She Sold Her Life's Savings

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Recently a woman in Tel Aviv disposed of two old mattresses to a junk dealer who drove past her house.
Fifteen minutes later she remembered that her life’s savings were hidden in one of the mattresses.
She dashed to the police, who found the dealer, slit open the mattress and pulled out 1,300 Israeli pounds in cash, besides gold rings and other jewelry.
While the action of this thoughtless woman made news abroad, and people everywhere may shake their heads at her carelessness, they fail to notice a far greater folly that is perpetrated every day.
We refer to the millions who sell their priceless souls for nothing.
The woman in Israel succeeded in retrieving her earthly fortune from the old mattress she had sold for a song, but when death closes the door upon a lost soul, it is lost forever.
“What shall a man give in exchange for his soul?” is the question asked by the Lord Jesus.
“What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?” (Mark 8:3636For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? (Mark 8:36)).
Be warned! Perhaps “this night thy soul shall be required of thee” (Luke 12:2020But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided? (Luke 12:20)). Come to the Saviour now, while there is time.
To lose your wealth is much,
To lose your health is more;
To lose your soul is such a loss
As nothing can restore.