Who Can Be Saved?

 

 Matthew 19:23-30

 All Is Possible With God

²³ Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Truly I tell you, it is hard for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of heaven. ²⁴ Again I tell you, 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 God.”

²⁵ When the disciples heard this, they were greatly astonished and asked, “Who then can be saved?”

²⁶ Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

²⁷ Peter answered him, “We have left everything to follow you! What then will there be for us?”

²⁸ Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, at the renewal of all things, when the Son of Man sits on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. ²⁹ And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life. ³⁰ But many who are first will be last, and many who are last will be first.

We follow the departure of the rich young man with the assurance from Jesus that "all things are possible with God." Following Jesus requires detachment from things, prestige, and even at times, people. It's no easy path, but the testimony of the lives of the saints over the past two thousand years bears testimony to the truth in what Jesus is saying. It's a path we cannot walk alone. Jesus must be with us. We need to walk with him, otherwise we will falter, trip and fall flat on our faces.  We are called each day to reach out to him to walk with us, be with us, help us take every step of our journey. May pride nor a false sense of independence keep us foolishly separated from Jesus.

Bro. Rene

Dear Jesus, walk with me, be with me, lest I stumble over my own pride. Amen.