Letting The String Go On Purpose

Plain colored helium filled balloons are nice, and they make great decorations at baby showers, birthday parties, etc, but there is something about a customized helium ballon, the ones that say “Happy Birthday”, “Congratulations”, “Great Job” etc, that before you walk outside, if you don’t make sure any of the plain balloons are wrapped around your wrist tightly, the customized ones that celebrates you are in at least a double-knot around your wrist or hand. The customized balloon is special because it helps to celebrate you, support you, it appreciates you, you don’t want to let it go, you quickly develop an adoration for it. I know in my teen years when I got customized helium balloons, after the air went out I would hang them on my wall or put them in some type of “keepsake” box to relive the memories. If you were to walk outside and the string of your customized ballon slipped off your wrist into the air, you did what you could to get the ballon back, reaching, grabbing, running, jumping, trying to catch the balloon before it got away. If it did get away, you may feel a quick jolt of sadness and disappointment, because hey, that ballon stated what you were and who you were in the moment. I said all that to say that customized helium balloons are a lot like relationships. Relationships celebrate you, support you, appreciate you, you don’t want to let the customized ones go. You do what you can to hold on to them, you talk, encourage, listen, spend time, pray, whatever you can to hold on to it. But unlike a helium balloon, sometimes in relationships we have to unwrap, untie, or simply cut the string from around us, letting  the string go on purpose. We have to know that after the helium has gone out, we can’t hold on to it as a keep sake, but you have to throw it a way. Specifically speaking of the relationships that God has been saying to let go because in one way or another it’s detrimental to us, whether we see it or not. Sometimes we don’t see the harm, and sometimes we only can gaze specs of it because what’s in our focus is the fact that we are giving effort, the fact that we care, the fact of loyalty and trust that we feel is there, because not only the fact that you love the person, but you love the friendship/relationship. I could go on and on in this blog, but this will have to be a part two. I don’t want to just say let go (especially if God is saying let go) without me giving ways of how to let go, but here are reasons why God may say to let go. It’s easier said than done, but it has to be done. Even though we may feel a jolt of sadness at the moment, there is not pain that Jesus can’t heal.

 Here are some reasons:
-We are in relationships or friendships where we are taking advantage of.
-We are in relationships where we are tolerated and not celebrated.
-When we are putting time into something that’s not going to work because it wasn’t meant to be.
-When we have put someone in place of God.

-When we have used someone to fill a void.
-When God wants us to separate because there is a soul tie there.
Stay tuned for part 2.