Matthew 19:16-30

Matthew 19:16-30 
English Standard Version (ESV)

  If you would be perfect...
  If we're trying to be perfect on our own, we will discover that our attempts are sorely lacking and will always fall short.  But we lull ourselves into the false sense that we are good enough as we are, and money is a great security blanket for that state of mind -- it can make us believe that we can use it to obtain anything we want, and we can start to look to it for security.
  But money cannot provide us ultimate security, and we will never find perfection without Jesus Christ.  If we look to anything in this world to give us security, we'll be disappointed and broken by the end, because everything else will disappoint.  Only Christ is perfect and perfectly reliable, and only by his grace and love are we made perfect.  With God, all things are possible, even obtaining salvation that would otherwise be possible if it depended on humans and our human efforts.