Jesus said, 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.
How much baggage do we carry that prevents us from entering God’s kingdom. Some of those bags are our possessions; some are negative thought patterns and some are habits and actions. Whatever is preventing us from living in joy, peace and hope needs to go. They are our enemies and are the impenetrable walls that keep us out of the that Eden God created for us.
So today, let us unload all the baggage that keeps us from the presence of God here below and forever in heaven. Then we can walk in love and light each moment of each day.
In light,
Z gardener
Good Morning Garden 
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