As to specific examples, read the bible with the blinders off. Jesus told that one young man that in order to be saved he had to sell everything he had and "Come follow me". He doesn't tell everybody to do that. He had an enigmatic message for the woman at the well.
That's that. Unlike the rest of you I don't have an inside track to the Throne of God but I have faith as a grain of mustard seed. I think I'll just rest on the faith I do have and let God worry about the rest.
My intent was to understand and clarify..not to hit :>)
I think Jesus really wasnt talking about things with that young man..but asking him to make Him (Jesus) the most important thing in his life..Jesus knew what the young man valued most...it is sort of like" you can not serve both God and mammon"..or "where your treasure is that is where your heart will be".
The woman at the well received very much the same message actually
John4 22 "" You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23 ""But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers. 24 ""God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.''
We must worship him in Spirit and in truth..He must so fill us...be so much the desire of our heart..he must so be the first thing in our lives that the very "living waters" He spoke of flow out of our bellies..(John 7:38)
God honors a seeking heart and He loves it when we meditate on His word!