Summary: <p><strong>Hi, this is Ricky and our Daily Devotional today is found in Mark 10:17-31. </strong><strong>Feel free to read along in the show notes below.</strong><br> <strong>Also, I’d love to hear your thoughts on this scripture so comment on this episode at <a href="http://dailydevotionalpodcast.com/podcast/mark-1017-31/">http://dailydevotionalpodcast.com/podcast/mark-1017-31/</a>.</strong></p> <p><span class="text Mark-10-17"><sup class="versenum">17 </sup>And as he was setting out on his journey, a man ran up and knelt before him and asked him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”</span> <span id="en-ESV-24600" class="text Mark-10-18"><sup class="versenum">18 </sup>And Jesus said to him, <span class="woj">“Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone.</span></span> <span id="en-ESV-24601" class="text Mark-10-19"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">19 </sup>You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder, Do not commit adultery, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honor your father and mother.’”</span></span> <span id="en-ESV-24602" class="text Mark-10-20"><sup class="versenum">20 </sup>And he said to him, “Teacher, all these I have kept from my youth.”</span> <span id="en-ESV-24603" class="text Mark-10-21"><sup class="versenum">21 </sup>And Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, <span class="woj">“You lack one thing: go, sell all that you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”</span></span> <span id="en-ESV-24604" class="text Mark-10-22"><sup class="versenum">22 </sup>Disheartened by the saying, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions.</span></p> <p><span id="en-ESV-24605" class="text Mark-10-23"><sup class="versenum">23 </sup>And Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, <span class="woj">“How difficult it will be for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God!”</span></span> <span id="en-ESV-24606" class="text Mark-10-24"><sup class="versenum">24 </sup>And the disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus said to them again, <span class="woj">“Children, how difficult it is to enter the kingdom of God!</span></span> <span id="en-ESV-24607" class="text Mark-10-25"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">25 </sup>It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.”</span></span> <span id="en-ESV-24608" class="text Mark-10-26"><sup class="versenum">26 </sup>And they were exceedingly astonished, and said to him, “Then who can be saved?”</span> <span id="en-ESV-24609" class="text Mark-10-27"><sup class="versenum">27 </sup>Jesus looked at them and said, <span class="woj">“With man it is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God.”</span></span> <span id="en-ESV-24610" class="text Mark-10-28"><sup class="versenum">28 </sup>Peter began to say to him, “See, we have left everything and followed you.”</span> <span id="en-ESV-24611" class="text Mark-10-29"><sup class="versenum">29 </sup>Jesus said, <span class="woj">“Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands, for my sake and for the gospel,</span></span> <span id="en-ESV-24612" class="text Mark-10-30"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">30 </sup>who will not receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and in the age to come eternal life.</span></span> <span id="en-ESV-24613" class="text Mark-10-31"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">31 </sup>But many who are first will be last, and the last first.”</span></span></p> <p><strong>What do you think? </strong><br> <strong>Comment on this episode at <a href="http://dailydevotionalpodcast.com/podcast/mark-1017-31/">http://dailydevotionalpodcast.com/podcast/mark-1017-31/</a>. </strong><br> <strong>Email me with comments, feedback, or prayer requests</strong></p>
