Now it may be comparatively easy to take care of our bodies, but it is quite impossible for us to take care of our souls. There is only One Person who made them, and who knows just what they want, and has the right food to give them. This Person you know is God.
We are told that when our bodies die, our spirits or souls return to God who gave them to us. They belong to God. He is the only One who can keep them safely, and make them grow strong and beautiful. We may not all have beautiful bodies, but we can all have beautiful souls, if we hand them over to God to keep.
Is this difficult to do?
Let us talk about it a little.
The Devil wants to get possession of your souls to destroy them. He tries to keep us away from God because he knows that our souls will thrive and blossom into beauty, and be kept in perfect safety if we hand them over to God.
So he employs different means of keeping us far away from God.
He surrounds us with boys and girls who never think about their souls at all, and they persuade us that saying prayers and reading the Bible, and going to Church or Chapel, is all very dull and stupid. We must have a jolly time, and enjoy ourselves, and whatever we do, must never turn "pi," or be a prig.
Then lessons, and games, and treats all follow each other so quickly that we feel we haven't time to think about God.
We are too busy, too occupied, too full of interesting plans and purposes to think about our souls. The Devil takes care to keep us busy. What can we do? Only one thing. Come straight to the Lord Jesus Christ, kneel down in any quiet corner, ask Him when we go to bed at night, and when we get up in the morning to take our soul into His loving keeping.
He will do the rest. He will remind us just in time before we are going to give way to temper, before we're going to tell a lie; He will give us courage to stand up for the right, and to refuse to join in any wrong doing, and He will give us sunshine and happiness in our souls.