Today's Verse: Luke 18:27 (NIV)

Jesus replied, “What is impossible with men is possible with God.”

Jesus said this after the rich ruler could not bear to give up his material possessions to follow Jesus, and his disciples asked, "Who then can be saved."

Today's Comments: Unlike us, Christ's disciples gave up everything to follow him. They, of course, were rewarded. The lesson here is not that we should all give up our wealth, let our hair grow long, and don sandals to follow Jesus. The lesson here is that Jesus knew the young man's heart and asked him to give up the thing that was more important in his life than even God, his wealth. Jesus was saying that those who love money more than God cannot, by themselves enter the Kingdom of heaven. This ruler was looking for salvation on his terms, not on God's. It is when we are possessed by our riches that makes salvation difficult for the wealthy. If we measure success by the amount of riches that we accumulate, then we fall drastically short of the lessons that God is trying to teach us. It is what we do with those riches that measures our success.