“This night your soul will be required of you; then whose will those things be which you have provided?” (Luke 12:20) ♥︎

Who is stronger? Man said, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years; take your ease; eat, drink, and be merry,” but that night our Lord said to those who thought that way, “This night your soul will be required of you; then whose will those things be which you have provided?” To whom do people’s souls belong? They are God’s.

Material things are only necessary on this earth. We shouldn’t be too attached to them. People are prone to rely on material things because they are not originally spiritual but are instead physically inclined. But people who depend on their material possessions are actually foolish. Material prosperity is given to you today, but it can be gone the next morning. Our Lord accurately pointed that out.

What kind of faith, then, is required to worship God in spirit and truth? It’s the kind of faith that requires us to worship God by believing that the Lord shouldered all our sins by being baptized by John the Baptist in the Jordan River, and that He also bore the condemnation of all these sins. In other words, we must worship God in spirit and truth and accept the remission of sins into our hearts by faith. We must confess our faith and say, “God is my Lord and my God.” 

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