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January 18, 2009
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Sell Your Soul?, by Teresa Bell Kindred
Recently, a woman from California listed an old baseball card for sale
on eBay. The first bid was for $10. When she started getting lots of
email requesting more information about the card, she suspected she'd
stumbled on something more valuable and quickly ended the sale. Smart
lady. What she had found was actually a card made in 1869. The card
featured "The Red Stocking B.B. Club of Cincinnati." This club was
baseball's first professional team. It's thought to be one of the first
baseball cards ever produced, and its value could be more than
$100,000.
While a baseball card isn't that unusual of an item to auction off,
some of the items people have sold on eBay are pretty silly. Some man
sold space on his forehead for advertising, which brought a little over
$37,000. A woman sold her dead father's walking cane, his ghost
included, for about $65,000. And then there was the famous grilled
cheese sandwich that supposedly looked like the Virgin Mary that sold
for almost $30,000.
The truth is, you can sell just about anything on eBay, but you can't
sell your own soul -- at least not anymore. A while back, one man's
soul was up for sale and a woman from Iowa had bid $400 before eBay
realized what was going on and stopped the auction. While you can no
longer sell your soul on eBay -- it's in violation of their policy and
you can't sell body parts either -- you can use the Internet to sell
your soul to someone willing to buy it. A 24 year old sold his for
$3,800 to a New Zealand pizza place appropriately named after the place
of torment.
What is a soul anyway? Our soul is our very life -- our heart, our
thoughts, our being. Can you put a price on that?
There are those who sell their soul without realizing it.
Obviously some people have tried to sell their soul, and then there are
those who sell their soul without realizing it. What do I mean by that?
Any time we let our lives be dictated by things or other people,
instead of following God's will, we are selling our souls. Some sell
theirs for power, some for pleasure, and some for money and
possessions.
Jesus warns, "What good will it be for you to gain the whole world, yet
forfeit your soul? Or what can you give in exchange for your soul?" (Matthew
16:26).
Dollars won't be anything but fuel for the furnaces of hell when we
enter eternity. Gold will be nothing but pavement for the streets. All
the things we think of as valuable today will be gone in the blink of
an eye.
Sell things out of your attic or closet on eBay if you want, but give
your heart and soul to Jesus.
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world,
but to save the world through him (John 3:17).
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(c) 2009 Teresa Bell Kindred <kindred@scrtc.com>. Used by
permission. Visit TeresaKindred.com
<http://www.teresakindred.com> for more.
RELATED LINKS:
* God on Ebay
http://www.heartlight.org/articles/200804/20080422_godonebay.html
* Selling Your Soul
http://www.heartlight.org/articles/200807/20080718_sellingsoul.html
* Not Fair!
http://www.heartlight.org/articles/200612/20061217_notfair.html
* TeresaKindred.com
http://www.teresakindred.com
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