This coming Sunday, Lord willing, I will continue my sermon on the rich man and Jesus’ indictment of wealth. In commenting on how difficult it is for a rich man to get to heaven, Jesus tells us that is easier for a camel (the largest animal someone in Palestine would be aware of) to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God (Mark 10:25).
C.S. Lewis wrote a witty poem about this. (Found in his book, Poems.)
All things (e.g. a camel’s journey through
a needle’s eye) are possible, it’s true;
But picture how the camel feels, squeezed out
in one long bloody thread from tail to snout.