The soul gives us the unique capacity to know God and to love Him. It is “…the first among all created things to declare the excellence of its Creator, the first to recognize His glory, to cleave to His truth, and to bow down in adoration before Him.”
In order to develop those spiritual attributes which will be needed in the life hereafter, we must worship God through prayer, meditation and living a life which is pleasing to God and that reflects the nobility of God’s creation.