Taking care of your life
Trying to keep up with everything that benefits one’s life and prolong it is getting more exhausting. Every day someone comes up with something that will benefit something in your body from memory loss, to substituting sugar or losing weight. And the goal that is being pressed on man today is to save his life. In fact, scientists are trying their hardest to find a planet where man can start over and be saved. With all the things going on in this planet, everyone is trying to run away from death even more. God’s desire is to preserve life (ps41:2). Jesus said that he came to seek and save that life which has been lost (lk19:10). So, we are to take care of our life because out it comes the issues of life (pr4:23). But what is life? What is the definition of life? Our meaning of life does just include our breathing, but the activities we engage in.
Mark 8:35-36
35 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel’s, the same shall save it.
36 For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
The definition of life includes both breath and the soul. And in God’s purpose for saving a life it has to be lost. The question is what is to lose a life? In God’s Theology it is the soul that must be lost. The definition of lose is to destroy i. e. to put out of the way entirely, abolish, put an end to, ruin: Paul tells us that the old man in us must be crucified with Christ that the deeds of sin might die (Ro6:6-7). The deeds that our souls have acquired are evil. We have learned and practiced things that in contrary to God’s standard and they have to be put to death, if we want our soul to be saved that is. We need to lay aside our old self (Ep4:22-24) and be renewed. To save means to keep safe and sound, to rescue from danger or destruction. The only way to save our soul from destruction is when it has the purpose of Christ and the gospel in it. The gain of this world is temporary, it is slowly but surely depreciating. When focusing on gaining the things of life of this world, it is easily detrimental for losing one’s soul.
Psalms 41:2
2 The Lord will preserve him and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies.
Luke 19:10
10 For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.
23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
Romans 6:6-7
6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
Ephesians 4:22-24
22 That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;23 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;24 And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.