As I was driving home from having lunch today with my sunday school class, this song came on the radio and the chorus was "why would I want to gain the world and lose my soul." I knew that the chorus has some scriptural backing so I decided to look it up. The line in the song comes from Mark 8:36. This is the same chapter that Jesus feeds the five thousand and right before this in verse 34 Jesus tells the crowd that if they want to follow him they must take up there cross daily.
When Jesus talks about gaining world, just think about what gaining the world would look like. You would have the biggest mansion, the most expensive cars, you would always be the biggest thing in town, you would always have people wanting to do things for you and with you. It would be amazing in the worlds eyes. But now think about losing your soul, according to the dictionary your soul is the principle of life, thought, and feeling. So what exactly would you gain if you would gain the world and lose life, thought, and feeling, you would have gained absolutely nothing.
God offers us salvation, something that will captivate your soul if you truly follow after god with everything that you have, he will change your soul. Once you die you will have gained the world because you get to heaven. Heaven is a place you will truly gain the world because you get to see god face to face and you can worship him, you can fall on your knees, you raise your hands. It will be amazing you get to worship the creator the of all the earth with other believers.
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