From rich to richest!

Hello!!!

I have a new spot in the bible that I would like to discuss. Here we go!

Read Luke 18:18-30

In this verse a rich man asks Jesus what he must do to inherit eternal life. 

So in this case (in the bible) eternal life means that you will go to heaven and have an eternal life there.

Jesus answers the question with 2 main points:

1) follow the commandments that God has given

2) sell everything and then follow Him (Jesus)

Now the first (1) point is quite clear. But the second (2) point might be a little hard to understand. Jesus tells the man to sell everything, wich means all his material stuff. For us that sounds horrible to live with ‚nothing‘. I don’t think God wants us to live without anything, or as we would say „in a poor way“. But with this passage He means that He wants us to surrender to Him, to really follow Him without worrying about our material stuff and without putting a lot of worth in them. Often we are so focused on all the material things that we forget God, we forget to surrender to Him and spend time with him. 

He wants us to live for Him and He wants to be our richness. So that we wouldn’t count our material stuff and then say „I‘m rich when I have this and this and this“. 

=> so all in all God wants us to remember His commandments, surrender to Him everyday, live for Him and have our richness in Him.

Have a blessed week!

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