Save Our Souls

Do you think you need to save our souls? What makes you think our souls need saving? Do you feel you need to save our souls? To save your own... wretched neck? What have you done so wrong you feel you need to save our souls so badly? “Blessings are for the head of the righteous one, but as regards the mouth of the wicked ones, it covers up violence.” Proverbs 10: 6. “He that is walking in integrity will walk in security, but he that is making his ways crooked will make himself known.” Proverbs 10: 9. Some of us need only to go to church; for weddings christenings or funerals; driven in our own hearse. It was Simon Peter who said... “For a certainty I perceive that God is not partial, but in every nation the man that fears him and works righteousness is acceptable to him [God].” Acts 10: 34-35. “For the hearers of the law are not the ones righteous before God, but the doers of law will be declared righteous. For whenever people of the nations that do not have law do by nature the things of the law, these people, although not having law, are a law to themselves. They are the very ones who demonstrate the matter of the law to be written in their hearts, while their conscience is bearing witness with them and, between their own thoughts, they are being accursed or even excused.” Romans 2: 13-15. What bounty payment price do you expect for your supposedly unselfishly saving our souls? How is it that you do not yet know that “Hatred is what stirs up contentions, but love covers over even all transgressions.” Proverbs 10: 12. “By loving-kindness and true-ness error is atoned for, and in the fear of Jehovah one turns away from bad.” Proverbs 16: 6. What then is the inclination of your heart? And what does your conscience bear witness for you to do? Do you listen to your heart your conscience? Do you live by God’s laws in righteousness? Or is sin your joy your stumbling toy? “And do not become fearful of those that kill the body but cannot kill the soul; but rather be in fear of him that can destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.” Matthew 10: 28. “For what benefit will it be to a man if he gains the whole world but forfeits his soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul? ” Matthew 16: 26. Copyright © Terence George Craddock