There was a woman in Tel Aviv who was a very tidy housekeeper. Everything about her house had to be very neat and clean, and when she noticed a junk dealer driving with his truck in her neighborhood, she hurried to sell two old mattresses to him.
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 1300 Israeli pounds in cash, besides gold rings and other jewelry.
While the actions of this thoughtless woman make news, and people everywhere may shake their heads at her carelessness, they fail to notice a far greater mistake that takes place every day.
We refer to the millions who sell their priceless souls for nothing-like Esau who sold his birthright for a “morsel of meat,” never to regain it.
The Tel Aviv woman 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. Or, “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.” Come to the Savior 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.