If a women with enough sense just to touch the outer garment of Christ received what her heart desired without even a word, then what would this man, who desired perhaps the greatest spiritual good, to be perfect, have received from his encounter with Christ? It is difficult for me to imagine someone coming to Christ with a desire even higher than physical healing to go away empty and sad and that to be the end of it. Of course, no one is required to believe this story or that it was inspired, but if you consider the story temporarily as possibly a true account and meditate upon it, there is something beautiful about it and perhaps even more believable than that he went on as he was, a rich, pious man who followed the law. As we know he protested his partner's mockery of Christ and asked to be remembered by Christ in His kingdom, and received Christ's assurance that this very day he would be IN his kingdom with Him. On the cross, upon hearing the mockery and attention Christ was getting from the crowd, he at some point recognized him as the wise teacher he had encountered and remembered him saying how hard it will be for a rich man to get to heaven. During a robbery gone wrong, he killed someone with his partner in crime and was sentenced to be crucified. After going away sad, he lost everything and became a criminal through a series of rationalizations based on his misfortune. The story goes that the rich young man had inherited his family fortune by winning an inheritance dispute against his brother. the Vulgate, completed by St Jerome who had access to source texts since lost). Ronald Knox, incidentally, completed one of the first attempts to translate a more "readable" modern English version of the Bible that was still true to the original languages (esp. Dismas, the "repentent theif" who died next to Christ and to whom Christ said, "This day you will be with my in Paradise." The full story is published in "The Lost Writings of Ronald Knox" which is currently published by Catholic answers. What is standing in your way of following Jesus more closely today? Are you prepared to give it up? Ask the Lord Jesus to show you what it is, and surrender it completely to him.Ī Trappist recluse, under sudden, unbidden inspiration, wrote that this rich young man was St. He who had been the first became the last. 68-70). While he was very rich he wasn’t able to buy even a mouldy crust of bread to alleviate his starvation during the prolonged siege. Every Jew who wasn’t slaughtered at that time was sold as a slave. The rich young ruler, on the other hand, kept his money for himself but lost every cent of it when the Romans destroyed Jerusalem (between AD. The Rich Young Ruler Kept Money for Himself They, who were looked upon as being the last shall be the first in the coming kingdom. They, who took the eternal gospel to all the world at the cost of their own lives, shall inherit eternal life. The apostles made many sacrifices for Jesus, particularly after his death and resurrection. Have you ever wondered what happened to the rich young ruler? But he refused to give up his wealth for the sake of following Jesus, and the verse above tells you the end of the story in the Bible.īut of course, it was not the end of the story for this young man. This young man was so excited that he literally ran up to Jesus and fell on his knees before him, asking Jesus what he had to do to inherit eternal life. It had all started in such a promising way. That’s the last we hear in the Bible about the man who is sometimes popularly called “the rich young ruler.” This man was eminent among his people because of his wealth. He went away sad, because he had great wealth – Mark 10:22.
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