But it's My Stuff!!!!!

When visiting with someone dear I could not help but notice that they had a great deal of items left behind by a loved one.  At first I didn't think much of it, but in thinking about that visit it was another illustration on how the Most High is with us every step of the way.   My thought was why do they have all this stuff still??? The items were not being used and were just holding up space because they could not let go.  Then I thought of how they always seem drained, detached, dismayed or at times unable to enjoy peace.  Then Abba says “Really, so how are you any different? “ Do you still have residual things physically, spiritually or both that you have not let go of”???  Yes…. I do!!!   Reality check, huh Abba!!!! Yes daughter, check!!!!

In that moment I was given an opportunity so I could grow and move there by.  IF we are being intentional about growing in our relationship with the Most High this should be done so daily.   Be honest simply ask yourself, is this still where I am at???  If answering YES…..then you can understand that feeling too!!!!  There was a time I was very serious about hanging on to various items because they had “sentimental value”.  I was connected to these things despite them having no sustenance and they were really just trinkets of memories.  Never did I think of them as idols, but from this visit I was able to look at myself and see that I was in a similar spot.

Even the smallest things can become something we never intended as a stumbling block and a gate way.   Too much of anything can become a source of worship.  Who me???  Yes, if you owe nothing on your “favorite things” but choose to put yourself into debt holding on “just in case” well that sounds like worship!!!     There is a stark difference in what we want and what we need. A need is a provision that the Most High has set up for us here as we walk, but hoarding is just the opposite and it is not pleasing to the Most High.  Why…….it’s GREED which can lead to GLUTTONY!!!!   Yep the “BIG G’s ” !!!   These are spirits that we know are not of the Most High, that are contrary to the commandments.  So in doing so we are setting ourselves up to be pulled out of order.  How you may ask??  By our refusing to let go even if it is that old music collection.  How did this work out for our elders and this is still so until this very day!!!! For this very reason we are to be diligent and move as we are instructed to throughout scripture particularly when meditating on this topic.  In Exodus 20:3-6 Abba makes it clear what is required of us!!!!

 He says… “ Thou shalt have no other gods before me.⁴ Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. ⁵ Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Most High thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;⁶ And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments. 

Did our ancestors make idols out of things and of people??? Yes….So much so that we have been cast away from the Most High because of this disobedience!!!!!   Does that mean that a watch that was passed down to you or those bronze baby shoes you have from your little one is idol??  Only you can decide that, but you need to consider this in honesty.  Take time out and look around at what you have accumulated.  Decide is it a need or a want??? What is your attachment to it, who gave it to you and where were you when you got it???  Is it sitting on a mantle with candles burning around it??? Can it draw spirits to you….an old ornament perhaps from grandma from “their “Holidays”???  Does it secretly keep your mind and heart tied to that memory???  Could you lose it and think nothing else of it????   If so it's an idol and IF you are to be in the Father's order you know what you have to do.  The question is will you or will you have the choice made for you!!!!!