The Soul Is in Your Keeping Alone

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Humans have always had a choice.

In Kingdom of Heaven, King Baldwin IV says to Balian of Ibelin:

“A king may move a man, a father may claim a son,
but remember that even when those who move you be kings, or men of power,
your soul is in your keeping alone.
When you stand before God, you cannot say,
‘But I was told by others to do thus,’
or that ‘Virtue was not convenient at the time.’
This will not suffice. Remember that.”

The same holds true today — perhaps more than ever.

Nations rise and fall.
Empires redraw maps.
Yet the human soul — given by God — remains sacred.
Beyond borders.
Beyond banners.

The concept of the nation-state is barely 250 years old —
a fleeting invention on the long road of human history.

But the soul — the breath from God Himself — is eternal.

Israel was created as a synthetic state,
carved violently out of a land where people had lived for millennia —
the indigenous Palestinians.

The soldier who believes he is defending a flag
must still answer to something deeper:

The soul given to him by the same Creator
who fashioned every child, every old man, every woman whose life is now taken.

Killing a child cannot be shielded behind a flag.

God will ask the soul:
“What did you do?”

We are all children of Adam and Eve.

Our spiritual father is Abraham —
revered by Jews, Christians, and Muslims alike.

We believe in Moses.
We believe in the sacredness of life.

Where then does this endless destruction leave us?

How deep must the wound run
before we finally listen —
not to governments, not to flags —
but to the voice within,
to the soul that God Himself gave us?

Will humanity keep silencing that voice —
drowning it in politics, nationalism, pride?

Or will there come a day
when the soul’s quiet call
is finally heard
above the drums of war?

I do not know.

I can only hope.

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