"Salvation is of the LORD." -Jonah 2:9

By nature, we are all mixed up in our priorities. We esteem that which is natural, temporal and fleeting as much and that which is spiritual, eternal and lasting as little. The body and its pleasure and comforts are very important to people but their soul and its redemption and welfare are viewed as of little importance. The Psalmist rightly declared in Psalms 49:8, “ For the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceaseth for ever ”. Precious? How precious? Only Christ can tell us and He did: “ For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul ?” (Matthew 16:26) If we gain the “whole world” and everything that is counted precious in it and lose our soul we have really lost all! John Gill said to lose your soul is to “be consigned to everlasting torment and misery, be banished from the divine presence, and continually feel the gnawings of the worm of conscience that never dies...

"Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise H im, W ho is the health of my countenance, and my God." -Psalm 43:11 [KJV] "Let not your heart be troubled..." -John 14, vss. 1 & 27 [KJV] It is clear from scripture, and it is our day to day experience, that in this world, God's children, like the rest of Adam's race, will have trials, troubles and difficulties. Though we are the elect of God, chosen in eternal love and redeemed by the almighty blood of Jesus Christ, yet we have many a bitter cup of trouble and trial to drink before we finally enjoy everlasting glory and rest. But there is a sure remedy for this heart trouble. "Ye believe in God, believe also in Me." The only real medicine for troubled hearts is - faith - confidence in the sovereign Christ! This is the only prescription our Lord gives in the fourteenth chapter of John ...