Excluding loved ones, what is your most valuable possession? Your house? Your car? Your keys?! Or something of great sentimental value? You can soon discover what is your greatest treasure by asking, “What do I guard the most?” When you’ve answered this question then check it alongside these words of Jesus, “What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?” [ Mark 8:36 ] This teaches us that our soul is our most valuable possession, so we should therefore be guarding it above everything else.

Our soul is our spiritual heart. With it we can either love ourselves and go our own way, or love God and go His way. In His famous, Sermon on the Mount, Jesus taught that these two ways are like two roads. Many travel upon the broad road that leads to destruction but few travel along the narrow road that leads to life. [ Matthew 7:13-14 ]

Many people are like the driver of a single deck bus who was transferred to a double decker. One day he forgot he had a top deck and hit a bridge, with terrible consequences. Sadly many travel through life forgetting they have a top deck which is their priceless soul. They have cared for their body which is their bottom deck, but have neglected and starved their soul. This means that one day when they hit the low bridge of death, they will lose their soul – their most valuable possession.

It’s wonderful to have a healthy body but from God’s point of view, Total Fitness comes when we have a healthy soul. The dying words of Matthew Henry, a very godly man, were these, “A life spent in the service of God and communion with Him, is the most comfortable and pleasant life one can live in the present world.”