The Eye of a Needle. Precision 🧵🪡🐪

The Eye of a Needle

Precision 🧵🪡🐪

Matthew 19:24

“Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.”

Hey, Blog Friends!

I’ve got an Aha Thinking Moment today that might get those brain juices stirred up a little bit! 😂

As I was thinking about what to blog about, this fascinating topic came to mind:

The Eye of a Needle.

Now, stay with me because somehow I’m about to connect a needle, drawing blood, my grandmother, a camel, a rich young man, and the Kingdom of God.

I know. 😂

But it’s going somewhere.

🪡 Threading the Needle

When I’m teaching and training new employees on the techniques of drawing blood, I often use the illustration of threading a needle.

That’s honestly how I see drawing blood.

You have the needle.

You have your target.

And you have to place that needle precisely where it needs to go.

Precision.

I’m a very visual person, so this illustration makes perfect sense to me. Drawing blood is almost like threading a needle.

And for me, drawing blood comes naturally.

Whether I’m working in my own mobile phlebotomy business or at my place of employment, I truly believe this is one of my callings.

I can’t speak for every phlebotomist, but for me?

It’s natural.

And when I think about it, I believe God started preparing me for this kind of precision when I was just a little girl.

Yep.

About five years old! 😂

🧵 “Lauretta, Come Thread Grandma’s Needle”

I remember growing up in the country and visiting my grandmother.

My grandmother would sew clothes and make beautiful quilts. Every now and then, she would need help threading her needle.

She would call me:

“Lauretta, come thread my needle.”

And my little response was always:

“Okay, Grandma!”

Then she would say something I still remember:

“Be Grandma’s eyes. I can’t see the hole in the needle.”

So there I was—this little girl concentrating on that tiny opening, trying to get that thread through the eye of the needle.

And when I got it through?

Oh, I felt accomplished! 😂

That was my job for Grandma.

Threading her needle.

Afterward, Grandma would take that threaded needle and create something beautiful—a piece of clothing or a quilt for family and friends.

And in my little mind, I had something to do with that beautiful finished product.

I had threaded the needle!

Looking back now, I can see something I couldn’t see then.

God was teaching me precision.

🩸 Years Later…

Now can you understand why I compare drawing blood to threading a needle?

When I’m training someone, I want them to visualize what they’re doing.

You don’t randomly push a needle somewhere and hope for the best.

There is a target.

There is technique.

There is positioning.

There is precision.

And there is confidence that develops with experience.

It reminds me of threading Grandma’s needle.

Who hasn’t tried threading a needle before?

And if you haven’t…

Go try it! 😂🪡

Because that tiny little opening brings me to something much bigger.

🐪 Here Comes the Camel!

In Matthew 19, Jesus uses the eye of a needle to teach a powerful spiritual truth.

Jesus said:

“It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.”

Now wait a minute, Jesus! 😂

I can thread a needle.

I can draw blood.

But a CAMEL?! 🐪

Through that tiny opening?!

I’m not that good!

My works aren’t that good.

My technique isn’t that good.

My abilities aren’t that good.

My personality isn’t that good.

And my righteousness certainly isn’t good enough to get me into Heaven.

And that is exactly where this story gets interesting.

“What Do I Still Lack?”

The rich young man came to Jesus asking what good thing he needed to do to have eternal life.

Eventually, he told Jesus that he had kept the commandments and asked:

“What do I still lack?”

—Matthew 19:20

There it is.

He was looking at what he had done.

His obedience.

His accomplishments.

His goodness.

His ability.

So Jesus touched the very area that exposed what had his heart.

Jesus told him to sell his possessions, give to the poor, and follow Him.

And suddenly…

Things got quiet.

Because this man had great possessions.

The Bible says:

“When the young man heard this he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions.”

—Matthew 19:22

There was something he wasn’t willing to release.

Jesus wasn’t teaching that money itself could keep someone out of Heaven. He was exposing something deeper:

What are you trusting in?

Your possessions?

Your accomplishments?

Your goodness?

Your status?

Your ability?

Your own righteousness?

Because none of those things can save us.

🐪 Now Thread THAT Needle!

Jesus turned this into a teachable moment for His disciples.

He told them how difficult it is for those who trust in riches to enter the Kingdom of Heaven.

Then He gave them the unforgettable picture:

A camel going through the eye of a needle.

The disciples were astonished.

They asked:

“Who then can be saved?”

And here comes the answer that changes everything:

“With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

—Matthew 19:26

There it is!

IMPOSSIBLE WITH MAN.

POSSIBLE WITH GOD.

That’s the message.

Salvation isn’t about how well you can thread the needle.

It isn’t about how much money you have.

It isn’t about how many good deeds you’ve done.

It isn’t about how talented you are.

It isn’t about how religious you appear.

And it isn’t about how righteous you believe yourself to be.

Salvation is the work of God.

Stay in Your Lane 😂

That reminds me of my work as a phlebotomist.

I have a job to do.

Draw the blood.

There are other professionals in the hospital who have their responsibilities, and I have mine.

I don’t need to run around trying to perform everybody else’s job.

Stay in your lane, Lauretta! 😂

Do what you’re assigned to do and allow others to do what they’ve been assigned to do.

Spiritually, sometimes we need to learn the same lesson.

God has given us responsibilities.

We can witness.

We can love people.

We can pray.

We can encourage.

We can share the Gospel.

We can be light in this world.

But there is one job we simply cannot do.

We cannot save anybody.

That’s God’s department.

And sometimes we wear ourselves out trying to push a camel through an opening that only God can get it through.

💡 Lauretta’s Aha Moment

Maybe the lesson of the eye of the needle isn’t about trying harder to squeeze the camel through.

Maybe the lesson is realizing:

You were never strong enough to push it through in the first place.

Jesus said,

“With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

I can thread Grandma’s needle.

I can draw a patient’s blood.

I can sharpen my skills.

I can work with precision.

But when it comes to salvation, transformation, and changing the human heart?

That’s above my pay grade. 😂

That belongs to God.

So do what God has called you to do—and let God do what only God can do.

Stay in your lane.

Trust His hands.

Trust His precision.

Because when God is doing the threading, He never misses the eye of the needle. 🪡

Aha! 💡

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