What good is it?

What good is it?
Jesus said,

“What good is it for a man to gain the whole world,

 yet forfeit his soul?”

                                  Matthew 8:36.

Someone I know is fond of saying

“life is short, 

and he who has the most toys at the end wins.”

Not exactly a true statement. In the end you have no toys.
Another quote that I read written on the inside flap of a poetry book made a more accurate statement it said,

Money.

 You can’t go anywhere without it.

But you can’t take it with you when you go.”

                                       Author unknown.

Men and women strive all their lives to acquire material wealth only to leave them to others when they die.
The writer of Ecclesiastes states,
“I denied myself nothing my eyes desired; I refused my heart no pleasure. My heart took delight in all my work, and this was the reward for all my labor. 
Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind; nothing was gained under the sun.”  Ecclesiastes 2:10,11.
Isaiah the prophet states,

“A voice says, “Cry out.” And I said, “What shall I cry?” 

“All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field. 

The grass withers and the flowers fall, 

because the breath of the LORD blows on them. 

Surely the people are grass. 

The grass withers and the flowers fall, 

but the word of our God stands forever.” 

                                             Isaiah 40:6-8.

This life is indeed finite. It has a beginning and an end. But our life does not end when our bodies turn to dust. That spark that is inside us. That spark that makes us who we are. The thing usually called the soul lives on throughout eternity.
The only question is where will your soul spend eternity?
It is a question I as a Christian believe you can answer here and now.
The apostle Paul writes,
“That if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.  
For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved.
As the Scripture says, “Anyone who trusts in him will never be put to shame.”  
For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile—the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him,  for, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved” Romans 10:9-13.
It all comes down to one question everyone who hears about Jesus must ask themselves. A question Jesus asked Martha,
  Jesus speaking to Martha said,
“Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies;  and whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?”
“Yes Lord” she told Him, “I believe you are the Christ the Son of God, who was to come into the world,” John 11:25,26,27.
Do you believe this?
Please think about it.