What shall it “PROFIT” a man to gain the world and loose his own soul?

What shall it “PROFIT” a man to gain the world and loose his own soul?

“Master speak to my brother, that he divide the inheritance with me”.

When Jesus were here on earth ministering the word of God, crowds and multitudes of people throughout the world thronged Him, listening to His preaching, teaching and the practical working of miracles and healings, all which they witness with their very own eyes and they all testify of His Divine power far beyond that of natural man.

Mingling within one of the crowd was a man who had a serious issue, a burning and hard to solve problem which caused him to interrupt Jesus during one of His teaching ministry as He ministered to an attentive crowd. This man (let’s call him John) had a burning issue of an inheritance which was left by their father, to be shared between him and his brother (let’s call him Alphus). 

John tried every avenue in having his brother equally distribute the inheritance equally but failed tremendously, because his brother Alphus failed to respond…by showing brotherly love and unity. John followed Jesus as He ministered amazingly on topics of great interest. Then while Jesus was ministering to the crowd, John interrupted Jesus’ ministry and loudly shouted to the top of his voice, crying “Master (meaning Jesus) speak to my brother that he divide the inheritance with me”! Jesus responded saying, “Man (referring to John) who made me a Judge or a divider over you and your brother”!  Then Jesus turned to the crowd of followers and said unto them, “people listen attentively and give me your un-divided attention, then Jesus said, “Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man’s life consisted not in the abundance of things which he possessed”. “GREED”.

      Covetousness is one of the oldest sin in the Bible and it is still alive among people of; race, colour, creed, nationality and language. In the church among the Shepherds and the sheep, in the homes among parents and children, in the work places among employer and employees, government and citizens, landlords and tenants, husbands and wives, on and off the fields of sports, in the society and the long list continues.

   

      Today mankind throughout the world are all involve is “Businesses” with great anticipation and expectation of a big and gigantic “PROFIT”. Business involves a well thought-out mental and physical main or mother plan, which consists of a series of other plans, having fine-tuned details consisting of both short-term and long-term goals, with the attachments and involvements of; time, dates and dead-lines.  All business involves a plan and without a plan for any business…that business will surely fail. Failure is the last thought on all business-planners minds; it is a vocabulary which constitutes the enemy and robber of all “Business Profit”.

        All business owners and partners anticipate great success with fulfilled-satisfaction mingled with merriness of happiness, joy and overwhelming gladness. Therefore the final analysis is destination rewardingly rejoicing.

People of all walks of life; rich, poor, old, young, parents, teachers, students, governments and the list goes on, are positively investing their; money, energy, efforts and time all in view of a great “Profit”. We can look at wealthy rich countries with; oil fields, minerals and diamonds as they supply other countries with these products and services in exchange for a large profit of financial gains.

        Further we can look at the behaviour of some governments, whose rulers are dictators, who emancipates themselves from loving their citizens…working them and treating them like slaves, refusing to share God’s provided wealth with them, but ravenously and gluttonously  kept practically all for them, families and close friends suffering the masses of people throughout the country. Finally the masses that were treated as slaves violently rebels against inhumane treatment, both by will and by force, seeking; democratic freedom and liberation from a life of slavery, finally, physically destroyed their power-hungry, self-seeking money-grabbing dictator. The dictator died holding on and clinching on to power, authority, greed, wealth and all the profit. He died with the absent of love both for his fellowmen and for God our creator. He died gaining the wealth and profit of this world and loosing his soul, because he excluded God from all his plans.

Today God is appealing to all men everywhere to consider the importance of our choice, either the gift of God which is eternal life…of our soul salvation and eternal death…living in sin forgetting God and His everlasting unconditional love, enjoying all the wealth, profit and gains of this world.

           What are some of our goals, visions, and dreams man sacrificed their whole life to and totally forgetting God the creator?

The Psalmist clearly states, if we fail to give God an invitation in all our plans, our efforts of building our ideas, dreams, visions, and goals, will all be in vain.

     We have a true example of a rich man in St. Luke: ch; 12: v 13 – 31, whom God blessed in so many ways, yet he failed to give God thanks.

     This man allowed “Mr. Self”, (Mr. Me, Mr. Myself, Mr. I), to control his life of success, and totally refused to give God an invitation for His help of Wisdom in his life of success. Because of that he finally ended up with and equations looking like this.

     Mr. Self = Mr. Me + Mr. Myself + Mr. I = Mr. Fool – God = Mr. Vain.

     Today mankind is still standing in front of the “Mirror”, seeing a reflection or a picture of Mr. Self.

     Mr. Me is boasting about what he has become from a child of hardship to an adult of stability and self sustain satisfaction.

     While Mr. Myself, beating his chest boasting about his education achievements from A – Z, and beyond, ended up visiting his doctor complaining of a chest pain.

     Finally Mr. I is the most popular person in the world today, he is so popular full of confidence, generally boastfully confused believing that no one can identify him, not even he-himself. He is so dangerous to himself that he always ended up; locked away in his self-made prison, being a fool, all alone, finally killing himself, because everything and everyone included himself seems vain when he looks in the mirror of life.

Businessmen, rulers, leaders, shepherds, parents, children and people of this world, What shall it “PROFIT” a man to gain the world and loose his own soul?