Not Away But To

Go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.
Matt 19.21

Platt:

Jesus' call to salvation guarantees radical reward. Jesus tells the rich ruler to go and sell his possessions, but He follows it up by saying, "and you will have treasure in heaven" (v. 21). Jesus was not calling the rich man away from treasure but to treasure. There's actually a tinge of self-serving motivation here, as in, sell everything you have in order to get something better! The question for us is whether we will live for short-term pleasures we cannot keep or for long-term treasure we cannot lose. We don't want to miss the reward in Christ because we want more stuff in this world. Jesus is infinitely better, and His reward is eternal. In verse 29 we see what a wise investment our radical surrender is, for Jesus says that our return will be a hundredfold, both now and in the age to come. That's radical reward.

 And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life.
Matt 19.29