GAIN THE WORLD, LOSE YOUR SOUL

When you read the newspapers and magazines and watch TV, it is very obvious that society is obsessed with one thing. Themselves. You can sum it up as “me, myself and I”.

Further, it is obvious that their obsession is with their physical well being. Personal trainers are on every street corner, gym membership is almost mandatory, we are obsessed with body image, psychologists and psychiatrists have never had it so good and the occult mediums are doing a roaring trade in predicting long life and happiness.

Even our quest for spirituality is based on “us” as the New Age counterfeit religion allows us to worship ourselves.

As an aside, I cannot understand why people would consult occult mediums who claim they can foretell the future because they are all shams. They operate on a numbers game so that what they say is so general, is on the law of averages, bound to apply to someone. If they are that good why is it they are still working? Surely they must be able to forecast the Tattslotto numbers and walk away with the millions every week. The fact that they don’t tells me that they know no more than the average man in the street. Still, they do say that a fool and his money are soon parted.

What did Jesus say about all this focus on “me”?

First of all he said take no thought for tomorrow. That is logical really because tomorrow never comes. When it does, it is today, so why think about something that never happens. It is more logical to take each day as it comes and to make the most of its opportunities and then to go to bed knowing that you have ‘seized the day.”

Then he said “what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul.” You can become a Donald Trump, a Warren Buffet, a Bill Gates, an Alan Bond, a Roger Federer, a Tiger Woods and become king of the world you operate in but if you lose your soul in the process, what is the point.

It has been said that money doesn’t buy happiness but it certainly makes being miserable much easier. What is the point of being rich and miserable if you lose your soul in the end? You end up being doubly miserable because if you lose your own soul, your destiny is a hell of a place.

The prosperity doctrine in the church has made us captive to the worldly satanic culture of the day.

Paul said to be content with what you have. Now that is true happiness.