Detachment of the Spirit is Liberating

God is life. Things are dead. If we centre our life on God, we are alive in spirit. If we centre our life on things we are dead in spirit. To centre or base your life on something, it is to worship that thing. “Blessed are the poor in spirit” Mt 5:3. Jesus teaches that detachment of the spirit from worldly things is liberating. It’s liberating because we are freed, we are not prisoners to our attachments, we are not slaves, and we are not addicts. God can fill us up, things can never fill up. God in our lives is enough, more things in our life is never enough. God is really priceless; the attachment to things is really worthless. We become what we worship, for to worship in to marry our hearts with, and where our hearts are that is what we become; alive with God or dead with things. The more we gain the world the more we lose our soul. To gain is to desire disorderly, to lose our souls means to turn from God. We cannot gain both the world and God. Gaining one excludes the other. The desire for the world and anything in it and the desire for God are opposite ends of the spectrum; opposite as night and day, dark and light. It cannot be night and day at the same time, you cannot have dark and light at the same moment. Desire in itself is good because it comes from God. It is good when we desire good things. It is good when we desire to be holy with all our hearts. It is good when we desire to do God’s will. Liberation from attachments is achieved through man’s desire for God.