Luke 18:18-23
“A certain ruler asked him, ‘Good teacher, what I must I do to inherit eternal life?’ ‘Why do you call me good?’ Jesus answered. ‘No one is good – except God alone. You know the commandments: ‘Do not commit adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not give false testimony, honor your father and mother.’ ‘All these I have kept since I was a boy,’ he said. When Jesus heard this, he said to him, ‘You still lack one thing. Sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven, Then come, follow me.’ When he heard this, he became very sad, because he was a man of great wealth.”
Reflection
The story in today’s scripture is in sharp contrast to several of the passages we have considered this past week. Instead, of an individual responding immediately this individual decides that the price to follow Jesus is too high. He can’t walk away from the one thing that is standing between him and Jesus.
He can’t give up his wealth. This story teaches us that there are things that can get in the way of us making the decision to follow Jesus completely and totally.
We tend to think that we don’t have any of those blocking factors in our lives that stand between us
and Jesus. Take time today to investigate whether there is something that is preventing you from following Jesus right now and in a full complete way.
