No greater tragedy can ever befall a person than to turn down the love of God,This was exactly what the rich young ruler of our text did.he walked away from the love of God into an irredeemable perdition. What pain of sorrowful displeasure must have pierced through the heart of our lord as He watched that young man he so fervently loved turn his back against him and took the first fatal step away from him & why would he loved somthing more than Jesus. He loved earthly possessions more than he did eternal treasures in heaven, which Christ offered him instead.
He preferred the perishable blessing of material possessions that he could see to the imperishable blessing he could not see. whenever you lack the the spiritual sight to see the reality as God sees it,you trade the temporal for the eternal. By so doing,you bring an unmitigated disaster upon yourself. Here is the principle,you cannot have your eyes focused on the visible and still see the invisible (Hebrews 11:27 NKJV). This truism was the theme of the lord's lamentation in the prophecy of Isaiah," Who is blind but my servant, Or deaf as My messenger whom i send. Who is blind as he who is perfect,and blind as the lord's servant. Seeing many things, but you do not observe;opening the ears,but he does not hear. Herein lies the real danger of materialism.
