Tuesday 18th August, 2009
Judges 6:11-24. The Lord speaks of peace to his people—Ps 84(85):9, 11-14. Matthew 19:23-30.

  
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Jesus tells the disciples that it ‘is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of heaven’.

I love this story. I think to myself there is a benefit in being relatively poor after all. But, of course, my wealth is in other places, tied up in other vices, equally hard to give up for a holy pursuit. This is where this story becomes quite confronting: it sounds like I have to make some changes.

The encouraging message is that it is possible. ‘With God all things are possible’. What a wonderful concept. The theory is good—now for the hard part.