24/05/2026
*The Dew Daily devotional*
By Rev J A Aina
YOUR SOUL IS PRICELESS
Sunday, May 24, 2026
Scriptural reference: Mark 8:34-38
“And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. 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. For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?” (Mark 8:34-36). One thing that one must never lose, no matter how much is offered you is your soul.
I can understand when the songwriter wrote that song. “Take the whole world but give me Jesus”; because, if you lose your soul, there is nothing one can give to get it back. Even though, Christ has fully paid the price to buy us back and the devil does not have our world but the truth is our souls are much more valuable than anything else. Your soul is invaluable and priceless. “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field” (Matthew 13:44).
Jesus told the parable of a man looking for treasure and when he found it, he sold everything he had and bought that one treasure. Also the man who sold everything just to buy that one field. Beloved, your soul is that treasure and that field.
Read what Moses did: “By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter; Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward” (Hebrews 11:24-26). Moses let go the palace and forsook Egypt because of what he could not see with his physical eyes yet.
The amazing thing about Moses was that he only had about five years living in his biological parents house to know enough to be able to prefer being called an Israelite rather being referred to as Pharaoh’s daughters son. He preferred the promised land and heaven to the opulence, wealth and pageantry of the palace of Pharaoh.
Many of us have been in church for years and we still behave like babies but Moses had only five years and yet he preferred the reproach of Israel. He did not meet God until he was eighty years old. Yet by faith, he valued his soul and relationship with God more precious than anything the world could offer him.
MEMORY VERSE: Mark 8:36, “For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?”