DETACHMENT & ATTACHMENT

"There will be a struggle with outward and internal obstacles. There must be a painful work of detachment as well as a work of attachment. Pride, selfishness, vanity, worldliness-sin in all its forms-must be overcome if we would enter into a union with Christ. The reason why so many find the Christian life so deplorably hard, why they are so fickle, so variable, is, they try to attach themselves to Christ without first detaching themselves from their cherished idols." Review & Herald 12/13/1887 E.G.W.
And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them. Psalm 106:36