Jesus said it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God (Mark 10:25).
The simile used by Jesus was a graphic one for his listeners. In those days, every important city was surrounded by a wall for defense. There would be a large gate in the wall and this would be closed at sunset and placed under an armed guard. There was usually, however, a low wicket gate known as the needle's eye, set in the big door. When a laden camel arrived after sunset the only way it could get in was to be unloaded of all merchandise, whereupon it would squirm on its knees through the needle's eye.
Unload your camel if you want to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. You do this, of course, not by getting rid of conditions in themselves, buy by getting rid of your sense of dependency upon them. Very often you will find yourself so glad to be without a lot of that merchandise that you will never put it back.
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I love this explanation. However, after we enter heaven en get rid of our 'loads' we also won't need the camel anymore
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