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We get awfully big when we have all that assurance, and all that confidence, and all that jazz. It's just hard to give it up and get in to where you really want to go. If you're a very brave person, I highly recommend a serious reading of the scriptures, and instead of always trying to understand it, so that it fits your theology, I would just really like to challenge you to read it and say, "That's what it says; of course it doesn't make sense, it's true!" And Truth very seldom makes sense.
We want to become healthy and prosperous and unaffected by the world, and He wants us to encounter the world in such a way as He did, which is a way that will eventually kill us. So we ask for all the wrong things and we get all the wrong things. That's why I think it's hard for a rich person to get into heaven, because they've been going the wrong direction for so long it's hard to turn around.
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These words are from the late great Rich Mullins, who may be gone from this present Earth but not forgotten in many a Pilgrim's heart, including especially mine. Rich spoke them during one of the last concerts he ever gave two weeks before he died in a tragic Jeep/commercial truck accident in Illinois in 1997. The story of how he came to give this concert and stay with a family there, plus the concert, words, music and all, are on the following YouTube video. Enjoy!
If you're looking for the song Rich sang after saying the words I quoted above, here it is:
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