There was nothing like this in the law: was it not hard?--Hard to let
earth go, and take heaven instead? for eternal life, to let dead things
drop? to turn his hack on Mammon, and follow Jesus? lose his rich
friends, and he of the Master's household? Let him say it was hard who
does not know the Lord, who has never thirsted after righteousness,
never longed for the life eternal!
The youth had got on so far, was so pleasing in the eyes of the Master,
that he would show him the highest favour he could; he would take him
to be with him--to walk with him, and rest with him, and go from him
only to do for him what he did for his Father in heaven--to plead with
men, he a mediator between God and men. He would set him free at once,
a child of the kingdom, an heir of the life eternal.
I do not suppose that the youth was one whom ordinary people would call
a lover of money; I do not believe he was covetous, or desired even the
large increase of his possessions; I imagine he was just like most good
men of property: he valued his possessions--looked on them as a good.
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