Humility is not common in a sinful world, especially amongst adults who think that they are 'someone'.  As parents were pushing their children forwards for Jesus to commend them to His Father and bless them, the disciples were upset that He was paying them too much attention.  After all, children were not important, they thought.  So the men from Jesus' team decided to stop the flow of youngsters who were getting in the way of the 'real ministry' as they saw it.
 

When we think that we can manage without Jesus - we do!  Whatever contributes to that state of arrogance is an idol, a false god, a spiritual obstacle to relating to the true God.  Wealth, in its many forms, gives a false sense of security which appears to make faith in God redundant.  When Jesus said it was 'easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God', some commentators suggest that Jesus’ metaphor was of a camel kneeling down and shuffling through a narrow archway.  But the word used is clear – how can a camel go

Some Christians believe that the church is part of their leisure experience; as warming as a barbeque on a summer's night, or as refreshing as a dip in the pool at the end of a long day.  Jesus said that the kingdom of heaven is about servants working for a master.  And the work He envisaged was not an office job with central heating and air conditioning; it was labouring hard in a vineyard.  The Apostle Paul described it as an escalation from work, to hard labour, and unrelenting pain (1 Thessalonians 1:3). 
 

When other people get more than you get, and they have done less to deserve it, how do you feel?  Jesus' parable about the vineyard labourers (Matthew 20:1-12), who were all paid the same amount even though some had hardly done any work, concluded with those who had worked all day complaining.  They had done more work than the late-comers, and yet everybody received the same wages.  Surely that was unjust.