During our recent visit to the Galleria mall in Campinas, I learned that I was starting to run short on the Brazilian Reals that we had converted from United States Dollars, a few days ago. In my wallet, I had some American dollars as well, but the dollars were of NO use in the shops in Brasil.
The same is the case in our Spiritual life as well. The currency that matters is not the physical kind that we amass, but instead it is faith (belief) in Jesus Christ.
Jesus is asking you and me the same questions that He asked His disciples; “What can a man give in exchange for his soul?” and “What shall it profit a man, if he should gain the whole world and lose his soul?” Don’t leave this question unanswered!
Mark 8: 34-37 (KJV)
34 And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
35 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel’s, the same shall save it.
36 For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
37 Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
38 Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.
