Ordinarily, that would be a contradiction in terms, but it is understandable: even when we are poor and in even poorer health, we want to live. Last week, former Nigeria leader Olusegun Obasanjo expressed the equation well: first, he wants to live until he is 100 or more. Upon being told to keep the commandments, the young man confirmed that he had indeed lived by them and wanted to know what he might have lacked. Then come, follow me.”Crestfallen, the young man departed, leading to Jesus’s deployment of the brutal camel-through-the-needle metaphor. Like that young man, we tend to run away when we are handed this recipe, or—worse still—we pretend not to have heard it.

Source: Punch August 22, 2020 23:15 UTC