23 Looking at his disciples, Jesus said, "Do you have any idea how difficult it is for people who 'have it all' to enter God's kingdom?" 24 The disciples couldn't believe what they were hearing, but Jesus kept on: "You can't imagine how difficult. 25 I'd say it's easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye than for the rich to get into God's kingdom." 26 That set the disciples back on their heels. "Then who has any chance at all?" they asked. 27 Jesus was blunt: "No chance at all if you think you can pull it off by yourself. Every chance in the world if you let God do it.
Having it all - and we all have much more then we need - makes it difficult to say I need help, I need something money can’t buy. I need to be saved. I need the grace of God.
We are so used to being in control that we find it difficult to “let go and let God.” Yet that is the key not only to the AA way of life but to the life of faith. It is hard to see how poor we are when we have so much that hides this truth from us.
As Rudyard Kipling said to a graduating class of medical students.
“You’ll go out from here and very likely make a lot of money. One day you’ll meet someone for whom that means very little. Then you will know how poor you are.”
“Let go and let God!” is more then a nice cliche; it is a way of life which opens the doors of the Kingdom of God to us. It is the way in - for all! !
“The problem is not that we’ve tried faith
and found it wanting,
but that we’ve tried mammon
and found it addictive.”
Arthur Simon,
Founder of Bread for the World
Prayer thought for the week: “Lord, help me to not become addicted to things money can buy,
and miss out on what money cannot buy…the grace which is free and the love which is eternal,
and the happiness born of faith, hope and love.”
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