Covetousness: The Soul—An Immortal Guest

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“Two things a master commits to his servant’s care,” said one, “the child and the child’s clothes.” It will be a poor excuse for the servant to say at His master’s return:
“Sir, here are all the child’s clothes, neat and clean, but the child is lost!”
Much so with the account that many will give to God of their souls and bodies at the great day: “Lord, here is my body; I was very grateful for it. I neglected nothing that belonged to its content and welfare; but for my soul, that is lost, and cast away forever. I took little care and thought about it.—Flavel.


Is this silly, laughing, trifling animal, born for eternity? Is this he that was made an incorruptible picture of the God of glory? He that was born to live with angels and arch-angels and all the company of Heaven? And is it thus that he is preparing to meet Him that is coming in the clouds of Heaven? What a fool, what a block-head, what a madman is he that forgets the very end of His creation!—John Wesley.

The soul on earth is an immortal guest,
Condemned to starve at an unreal feast:
A spark, which upwards tends by nature’s course;
A stream, diverted from its parent source;
A drop, dissevered from the boundless sea;
A moment, parted from eternity;
A pilgrim, panting for the rest to come;
An exile, anxious for his native home.
—Hannah More.

These quotations are taken from the book Covetousness, written and compiled by Lillian Harvey and published by Harvey Christian Publishers. It is available in their Online Christian Bookstore.

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