Following Jesus

"Then Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, "One thing you lack: go your way, sell whatever you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, take up the cross, and follow me."  Mark 10:21

Why do we save what we cannot keep?  Why don't we give all for what we can never lose?

Racked with shame for the faithless follower I seem to be, I cry out to you, O Lord, hear me!  Conform me to your image. 

"Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good!  For His mercy endures forever.  Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whome He has redeemed from the hand of the enemy, and gathered out of the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south."  Psalm 107:1-3