What Does It Profit to Lose One's Soul?

Mark 8:36: "For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?"

A good deal of life is about weighing one thing against another.  Whether it is as insignificant as what to eat for dinner or as important as where to live, our lives are inundating with weighing choices and making decisions that have ramifications that ripple through our lives like dropping rocks in water.  And while many of these decisions do have value, they all pale in comparison to the concerns of eternity.

This is what this verse is all about.  The anteverse deals with the denial of self and the daily taking up of a cross, but the hit comes in this question: for what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?

The answer to the question is that nothing is worth forfeiting your soul.  There is not a treasure that could possible be worth yielding one's soul for all eternity.  We would be wise to remember this in every situation.  In the end, only eternity matters.