I think sometimes we Christians can be like the young rich ruler. We ask him questions to help our walk with him, but then aren’t able to obey. Or we get into a state where we feel like we can do it on our own. We ask God what do we have to do to get into eternal life, or maybe unconsciously we have this thought. Culture likes to do this a lot and it confuses us. Sometimes culture and society tell us that all we have to do to get saved is go to church Sundays. Or it tells us all we have to do is give. Which is not true, it is something that we should do. I mean we all know the only way we will be entering to heaven is our simple true belief in Christ as our Lord and Savior. Now I say we are like this young rich ruler because as Christ is explaining some of the commandments, the young rich ruler says but I have followed all of them. Let’s read what the text says,

“And he said to Him, “Teacher, I have kept all these things from my youth.” Looking at him, Jesus showed love to him and said to him, “One thing you lack: go and sell all you possess and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me.” But he was deeply dismayed by these words, and he went away grieving; for he was one who owned much property” Mark‬ ‭10‬:‭20‬-‭22‬ ‭NASB2020.

Christ told him the very thing he lacked which is to give all that he had, to lay one more thing down to God. You see there are things in our hearts and lives that we still haven’t layed down to God. We say we trust him but we still try to take matters into our own hands. When he asks us to give to him we find it difficult to do so. What’s even crazier is that sometimes we do it unconsciously. ‬‬
When God tells us to do something, even though it’s so hard we must do it. We can’t say we follow God and believe in him, when we just follow one thing he calls us to do. We have to strive to do all of them. We forget to understand that this life isn’t the end for us, we still have heaven. We focus on what’s perishable when God wants us to focus on what’s imperishable. We hold on to things that God never told us to do so. We must lay down because God knows best. He knows all things, and sees all things. We may not always understand what God does, but we must trust him. If we truly follow Christ he may ask us to sacrifice some things, now we have to see if we are willing to do so… What is more important to you, your own self seeking desires or Gods will…?