Exchanging Our Soul

Mark 8:36 For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

Matthew 16:26 What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul?

These passage iare heavy on my mind and heart tonight. And the question; "is there anything that I am I exchanging my soul for?" To help bring context and understanding to to these - well-known - passages, I considered the following passages as well. 

Job 2:4 "Skin for skin!” Satan replied. “A man will give all he has for his own life.

Psalm 49:16-17  Do not be overawed when others grow rich, when the splendor of their houses increases; for they will take nothing with them when they die,their splendor will not descend with them.

Philippians 3:7-9 But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith. 

Let us not exchange our soul for anything. Let us fix our eyes - our minds - our hearts - our everything on Christ and the eternal home He has for us.