Topic: Those Eyes

Luke 18:19 "Why do you call me good?" Jesus answered. "No one is good--except God alone. 20 You know the commandments: `Do not commit adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not give false testimony, honor your father and mother.'" 21"All these I have kept since I was a boy," he said. 22 When Jesus heard this, he said to him, "You still lack one thing. Sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me." 23 When he heard this, he became very sad, because he was a man of great wealth. 24 Jesus looked at him and said, "How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God! 25 Indeed, 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." (NIV)

Jesus looked at the rich man and loved him. Did the rich man look back at Jesus and did the rich man really see Jesus? Was the rich man only interested in getting extra life? Maybe the rich man thought extra life could be purchased. The rich man was not scum of the earth. He was not only rich, he was also righteous. The rich man wanted to do right, be right, keep what he had, and not give anything up. In the story, we think we see the ending when the rich man walks away sad. Now if the rich man truly looked into Christ's eyes, there may have been a different ending to this story. The other ending to this story is that the rich man indeed gave away all he owned because the rich man saw Jesus for who He really was. The rich man may have seen those eyes, walked away sad, but later remembered those eyes and the love that beamed out from them.

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