Jesus looked around to see if anyone else would follow this man. He surveyed the situation and we can assume saw the need for further teaching. This teaching is hard and difficult, especially in our modern Western culture. He speaks about the difficulty of holding money and Jesus in the same hand. He even goes as far as to make the humorous statement of a camel going through the eye of a needle. The sheer impossibility of that does not lessen but only amplifies the difficulty of this. So why does wealth make it difficult to enter the kingdom of God? One of Jesus’ favorite illustrations for Christians is their child-like faith. So let’s think of a child and money. A child has no money on their own they are fully dependent on their parents. They have no choice, but to wholeheartedly trust their parents for provision. There is no way for them to do it on their own. I think this is what Jesus is getting at here. He understands our hearts and our desire to be God for ourselves. Money is insidious in that it makes us feel like we can do it all on our own. We can trust ourselves because we know money can solve a variety of problems. Financial security allows us to not seek out God with our problems and our difficulties. The love of money because of an obstacle to being dependent on God.