Attachment Issues
Hebrews 10:22-24 Amplified Bible (AMP)
22Let us all come forward and draw near with true (honest and sincere) hearts in unqualified assurance and absolute conviction engendered by faith (by that leaning of the entire human personality on God in absolute trust and confidence in His power, wisdom, and goodness), having our hearts sprinkled and purified from a guilty (evil) conscience and our bodies cleansed with pure water. 23So let us seize and hold fast and retain without wavering the hope we cherish and confess and our acknowledgement of it, for He Who promised is reliable (sure) and faithful to His word. 24And let us consider and give attentive, continuous care to watching over one another, studying how we may stir up (stimulate and incite) to love and helpful deeds and noble activities,
I remember when my children were younger they used to fight to sit next to me and they used to be so attached to me. When we would go out one would be on one side holding my hand and the other would be weighting me down by pulling and holding onto my purse so tight, it was almost like I was carrying them in that purse; I must admit I have had many a sore shoulder from the pressure and weight that they applied to my handbag. I used to sometimes fuss about it; I didn’t truly understand those days and moments until entering the last three to five years with my young adults, because now I cannot get a moment, or even a hug. They are not attached, they are at a place where they think they have outgrown not just me mommy, but my advice as well, it is interesting to see the evolution of my two children to young adults. They used to be what some may call overly attached, I just call it loved and close to now they are mostly unattached because they have their own interest, thoughts and attitudes.
As I thought about them, I thought about us in our relationship to God. I have seen the same pattern in many of us. When we come to Christ we cling to Him, we want so much of Him. We rush to get to church and to be in His presence wherever we can. If He petitioned us to pull off the road and speak with Him just for a moment we would do it. It He asked us to turn off the television and sit with Him we would; if He asked us to get up in the middle of the night to pray we would. Even when He asked us to turn down our plates with a willing heart we were obedient. We even thought the best in the worst of times. We were what I would call happy in Jesus. We just wanted Him and nothing else. But then we began to mature a bit, we begin to have people tell us how our vantage points and viewpoints were so Godly, mature and that we had blessed them by our words or our deed and we began to drink our own Kool-Aid and believe our own press. Then instead of asking and seeking after God we began to have an opinion, we began to let the “I” rise up in us and the pride of our ability to bless others take us away from God, and into the thinking that we no longer needed God the way we once did. We had it and we were doing our thing, all in the name of the Lord, without the Lord being involved. It was then we found ourselves frustrated and people were hurting us and agitating us. We found ourselves in over our head and our emotions purely on our sleeves, because were doing the work of the Lord without the Lord of the work. We had developed attachment issues and had not even noticed that we felt that we no longer needed God the way we once did.
I have heard many say that as we mature in Christ that we should not need God speaking to us as often, but truth be told, when we are seeking after God we will hear Him even in His silence and we will know Him even in the times it appears He has left the building. But even in our maturity, we should never outgrow God nor should we get to a place where He and His voice is obsolete. We should be holding on to Him, His word and works tightly so we understand Him more and we follow closely. There should never be a time when God is the afterthought instead of the forethought. We should be focused on Him, not on us and how the things we do and the life we live benefits us, it should be how it benefits Him and How it is used to build up His kingdom and further His cause. The Bible reminds us in Mathew 6:33, “But seek (aim at and strive after) first of all His kingdom and His righteousness (His way of doing and being right), and then all these things taken together will be given you besides.” It is when we are attached to God and His will that we reap the benefits of our obedience! Stay attached, for only abiding in the vine can we truly bear fruit! (John 15:4-5).
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