RICHBITS Series Article-Bonus Issue

A camel through the eye of a needle?

According to our Christian bible, Christ is reported to have said,  It be easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God.

And since a live camel, quite obviously, could not possibly pass through the eye of a sewing needle, one would assume if he took that metaphor literally, a rich man could not possibly enter the kingdom. But that’s not what Christ meant, not at all!  

You might want to stop using the camel metaphor as your excuse for choosing not to be rich. Christ was not really telling us rich people don’t go to heaven, or riches are evil and rich people are the bad guys.  

His metaphor had an entirely different meaning at the time —a meaning far different than what we’ve been led to believe by those who’ve misinterpreted it. What did He mean?  Before I explain, let's look at three of Christ's metaphors in combination.

Christ said:      “The kingdom of God is within thee”

And He said:  “Seek ye first the kingdom and all else shall be added unto thee”

But He also said,

"It be easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom"

I'm sure you've heard “the camel” metaphor many times.

           But, what does it really mean -- what does it mean to you?

That camel metaphor begins to make sense

-- once you've learned that the inner walls of many cities, back when Christ said that, had an opening shaped like the eye of a needle – an opening so small a fully loaded camel could not enter. So, a rich man who wanted his favorite camel with him in the inner city, would have had to, first, unload that camel.

Now, if you can relate the entering the kingdom metaphor to that of entering the inner city, you’ll begin to get the real meaning in the camel through the eye of a needle metaphor.

But let’s start at the top and learn to understand the meaning of all three metaphors

Since you are an individualization of God, it  follows that “the kingdom of God” for you would be in your heart. The kingdom of which Christ spoke is, therefore, that warm fuzzy, feel good, feeling that shows up for you in the form of peace, inner joy, happiness and your expressed enthusiasm for life.

Once you’ve accepted that your heart felt feelings of peace, joy, happiness and enthusiasm are, in fact, “the kingdom” in you, you can then surmise that the “Seek ye first” metaphor is telling us that we must first enter the kingdom before attempting any manifestation of out of the box results.

I’m interpreting this bible metaphor to mean we can have anything we want from life if we begin the manifesting process out of that warm fuzzy can-do feeling in our heart.

But the third, “camel through the eye of a needle”, metaphor, says we can’t enter the kingdom as a rich man, loaded down with our riches. To enter the kingdom, we’d have to leave our riches behind. And what you may not have realized in interpreting this metaphor is that YOU are the rich man in Christ’s metaphor.

You may not agree with the idea that you are rich, but the truth is – your riches will be whatever you’ve become attached to in life.

Whatever or whomever you think you need that you can’t live without is your form of riches. Also who you are BEING now is your riches – and that includes your self concept, your beliefs, your story, your attachments and your attitude.

According to Christ’s “Seek ye first” metaphor, if you have a goal you must begin the manifesting process with a visit to your inner kingdom of peace, love, joy, happiness and enthusiasm.

And according to the camel metaphor, you won’t be entering that kingdom loaded down with problems and or attachments.

Remember, Christ said,

"A rich man has as much chance of entering the kingdom

as a camel going through the eye of a needle."

 And you are that rich man or woman and before you enter the kingdom you must unload your camel.

To solve your problem,

To have your life come to BE the way you've always wanted it, you must rediscover your inner power (enter the kingdom) so that you can make the new BEING commitment necessary for manifesting the reality of your problem solved.

 

What you must see from this discussion, is that finding your inner power to make your new BEING commitment is the entering of the kingdom as per that bible quote.

 

The load on your camel is 

     whatever you're attached to:

·         Your poverty

·          Your victim story

o                                          I’m not good enough

o                                          Not smart enough

o                                          Life is hard

o                                          No matter how hard I try…

·         The relationship that’s not serving you

·         The job you don’t like

·         Your anger

·          Your resentment

Any one or all of these are the load on your camel's back

       – your attachment to poverty is your form of your riches!

 

In my opinion, you'll probably need help through the process. That's why we created the Success Blockers Workshop, to recharge your positive energy and move you past your five biggest barriers to success!

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The above article is part of series, each designed to help you answer the following questions for yourself,
so you can attract who and what you want into your life.

To manifest greater success you must:

1. Know what you want

2. Believe you can have it

3. Have the self confidence to choose it

4. The Winner's Attitude to attract it

5. And the self worth to accept it

If you've tried and failed at anything, it will be because you've left out one of the above five steps in the process of manifesting results. Transformation is the key to changing the quality of your life and all five of the above success elements are a necessary part of the transformation process.

With that in mind, each future issue of RICHBITS  will be part of a series of articles focused on one of the 5 elements of success. As the series develops, articles will be posted on our web site, available for your future reference and review. By reviewing those past articles, anyone new to RICHBITS can be brought up to speed and be able to follow the bouncing ball of self discovery.

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Darel A Rutherford
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