ATTACHMENTS

ATTACHMENTS

The human soul is like a magnet and many things are drawn to it. Things that are not bad, nor good but carry weight. Many people buy things that have no real use but to look at or fill space. Others have closets as big as rooms, filled with shoes and clothes that may only be worn once or never worn. Some are attached to hobbies, sports, cars, musical instruments, buildings or land. None of these are bad, however if you were going on a trip, how much of this would you take with you? Almost all would be left behind, because the weight would make the trip impossible. 

All attachments equate to some type of responsibility and responsibility is a weight on the soul, that slows a human being down. When you become born again your new living spirit must start conforming your soul to align with the will of your Heavenly Father. This aligning involves the complete obedience, of your soul man, to your spirit man, where My Holy Spirit resides. In order to fulfill your purpose everything in your soul life must be rearranged, including the attachments. The Holy Spirit introduces eternal things that your soul attaches too and a whole new value system is introduced.

Every soul has a different personality which draws different things and interests to different people. One mans treasure may be another mans junk. So people who have like treasures are drawn to each other because of common interests, and a relationship is built around the treasure. When you are born again, you have an "eternal treasure in your earthly vessel, that the excellency of your power may be of God, and not of man" 2 Corinthians 4:7 As you meet new people, much deeper relationships are built on these new kingdom attachments because they are eternal.  

However a space problem develops when earthly treasure attachments still remain. Complete obedience to the Spirit becomes a real chore and eventually impossible because of so much weight and so many responsibilities. Some things will have to go, in order to continue your kingdom journey! You will be required to "lay aside every weight, which doth so easily beset you, so you can run with patience the journey that is set before you." Hebrews 12:1 This process is called dying to self, or the crucified risen life. Not a single earthly thing has any value in the kingdom, because it is natural and cannot be taken into your supernatural future life. 

You must detach the earthly in order to attach the heavenly. You may be able to still possess some of the earthly, but you must detach from them. In other words, you possess them, they do not possess you, and this may include some people! The battles you are about to face will demand that you deny yourself the earthly attachments, and take up your cross, and follow Me." Matthew 16:24 When the weight and responsibility you carry causes you to disobey your calling, it becomes sin, that's where spiritual trouble begins! Stay out of trouble and detach!