If you grasp for that comfort to which you are not entitled, you will forfeit the kingdom that you might have inherited.
God has granted a precious and unimaginably rich kingdom to those who come to him through Jesus Christ. But the way to him is narrow, and everything extraneous is too wide to fit through it. We must shed everything unrelated to the kingdom in order to enter the kingdom.
If we opt for the broad way to accommodate our earthly stuff, or try to squeeze through the narrow gate with a backpack full of earthly stuff, we won’t make it into the kingdom. Try to pull your hand, full of cookies, back out of a Mason jar. Or clutch a book and try to pull your arm through your shirt sleeve. You get the picture.
After all, it is Jesus who tells us to pluck out our eye, and cut off our hand, if such is necessary to enter the kingdom.