He continues on about a rich person but I feel He was telling everyone that it was hard. Why do we want it easy? We are gaining eternal life that is perfect why would we expect it not to challenge us? We must totally die to self and learn to focus our entire life on glorifying God. We do this by following the life and way of Jesus who lived perfectly for God.
In verse 27 it says, “Jesus looked at him intently and said, ‘Humanly speaking it is impossible. But not with God. Everything is possible with God.”
I say forget what you want, you have to become fully devoted forgetting the statement “I want” and fill your self with God’s word so you can fully give your heart to Him as Christ did. I like this quote from the book “Jesus According to Scripture, by Darrell L. Bock. He said “Not every servant with a seeming connection to Jesus will end up blessed, because some will not have embraced Him and will end up with nothing.” This quote was in reference to the parable of Ten Servant in Luke chapter 19:11+. Don’t be satisfied with your life, aim for more as Paul says in 1 Corinthians 9:24-27 “Don’t you realize that in a race everyone runs, but only one person gets the prize? So run to win! All athletes are disciplined in their training. They do it to win a prize that will fade away, but we do it for an eternal prize. So I run with purpose in every step. I am not just shadowboxing. I discipline my body like an athlete, training it to do what it should. Otherwise, I fear that after preaching to others I myself might be disqualified.”
So I say set out to be the best you can be and meditate on God’s word so it flows from your heart. Amen