UNLOAD THAT CAMEL

  

UNLOAD THAT CAMEL

 

Around the Year with Emmet Fox

 

May 13

 

"It is easier for a camel to go through

the eye of a needle,

than for a rich man

to enter the kingdom of God"

Mark 10:25

The simile used by Jesus

 was a graphic one for his listeners.

In those days every important city

was surrounded by a wall for defense.

There would be a large gate in the wall

and this would be closed at sunset

and placed under an armed guard.

There was usually, however,

a low wicket gate known as the needle's eye,

 set in the big door.

When a laden camel arrived after sunset

the only way it could get in was to be unloaded of all merchandise,

whereupon it would squirm on its knees

through the needle's eye.

Unload your camel

if you want to enter the Kingdom of Heaven.

You do this, of course,

not by getting rid of conditions in themselves,

but by getting rid of

your sense of dependency on them.

Very often you will find yourself so glad

to be without a lot of that merchandise

that you will never put it back.