"What must I do to inherit eternal life?" The man who asked this question had everything going for him. Youth. Ambition. Wealth. Influence. Morality. Yet none of those achievements assured him that he possessed eternal life. "What must I do to inherit eternal life?" Jesus' answer shocked him, and still shocks selfsatisfied people today: "… come, take up the cross, and follow Me." Mark 10:21 (NKJV) The call to follow Jesus is costly. Repentance is nothing less than the destruction of competing idols – money, status, self-sufficiency – that we might love God above all else. For the young man who questioned Jesus, that cost was far too high: "… he went away sorrowful… " Mark 10:22
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Steve Massey is the pastor of Hayden Bible Church of Hayden, Idaho. He also writes about matters of faith for The Spokesman-Review of Spokane, Wash., where he previously worked as an editor and reporter. He and his wife, Pam, have two grown children, Jake and Sarah.
