What’s your most valuable possession? Your house? Your car? You can soon discover what it is by asking, “What do I guard the most?” You can then check your answer 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]
It’s good to have a healthy body but in God’s sight total fitness is when we have a healthy soul. We must therefore guard our souls from evil and keep them loving God. The dying words of a 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.”