A soul tie happens when you form a bond with a person that is so strong that effects your emotions, your spiritual life, and even corner of your being. Typically you feel a pull, a knot in your soul to this person, and no matter how many times you try to not think of them or even cease communication, you feel yourself as if on a fishing line, pulled right back to them.
A healthy soul tie is in a marriage with another follower of Christ. In that case you will benefit from it, as your emotions are connected to someone seeking to conform to Scripture, and your spiritual wellness is well, because they love the Lord. However, most soul ties are not healthy, they are formed through emotional attachment with someone, and if they have a different spirit, that can be detrimental because if they are not Christian they belong to Jesus, “You used to live in sin, just like the rest of the world, obeying the devil—the commander of the powers in the unseen world. He is the spirit at work in the hearts of those who refuse to obey God,” (Ephesians 2:2 NLT), then you are opening yourself to the influence of someone who can lead your heart astray and even shipwreck you in sin. Often soul ties are created through flirting, deep emotional sharing and sexual interactions; this can be in person with intercourse, through it is possible through sexting, ERP (erotic role play) through writing, and other means to develop the illegal soul tie with them. That is the problem, making a soul tie now is very easy through Discord, Instagram, Tik Tok, Reddit and etc. (I am not saying these sites are bad, they are tools, but you can form soul ties thru them).
It is possible to form soul ties with celebrities, anime characters, and other fictional beings in books, comics, mangas, artwork, shows, movies, and other media. While this is one sided, in that the other person does not pursue you in the soul tie, it does open you to a obsessive and possessive spirit that is in regular soul ties.
What do you do with soul ties? If you find yourself getting tied to someone, what is the best way to handle it. The answer depends on who they are. If its another devout Christian, then it is not so much an problem, but more likely the soul tie can happen where you fall for an unbeliever, even a dark spiritual person because they stoke your ego, check on you, love on you when no one else seems to be fulfilling those needs; that is when you need to be on your guard. The Scriptures are very clear, “do not be unevenly yoked, “Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever? What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, “I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Therefore go out from their midst, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch no unclean thing; then I will welcome you, and I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty,” (1 Corinthians 6:14-18), “Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals,” (1 Corinthians 15:33), “You shall not intermarry with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons, for they would turn away your sons from following me, to serve other gods. Then the anger of the Lord would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly,” (Deuteronomy 7:3-4). This is useful for soul ties, because more likely than not your soul tie will form in an unevenly yoked situation. And that person will tempt you sexually, tempt you spiritually to explore other things, like Soloman’s many pagan wives that lead him to building pagan temples, “Now King Solomon loved many foreign women. Besides Pharaoh’s daughter, he married women from Moab, Ammon, Edom, Sidon, and from among the Hittites. 2 The Lord had clearly instructed the people of Israel, “You must not marry them, because they will turn your hearts to their gods.” Yet Solomon insisted on loving them anyway. 3 He had 700 wives of royal birth and 300 concubines. And in fact, they did turn his heart away from the Lord.
4 In Solomon’s old age, they turned his heart to worship other gods instead of being completely faithful to the Lord his God, as his father, David, had been. 5 Solomon worshiped Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Sidonians, and Molech,[a] the detestable god of the Ammonites. 6 In this way, Solomon did what was evil in the Lord’s sight; he refused to follow the Lord completely, as his father, David, had done.
7 On the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem,[b] he even built a pagan shrine for Chemosh, the detestable god of Moab, and another for Molech, the detestable god of the Ammonites. 8 Solomon built such shrines for all his foreign wives to use for burning incense and sacrificing to their gods.
9 The Lord was very angry with Solomon, for his heart had turned away from the Lord, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice.” (1 Kings 11:1-9).
The cost of soul ties is more than you can possible understand, and so it is wise if you have soul tie to a pagan, unbeliever, and anything not Christian to do the following:
- Renounce the soul tie with the person, say this out loud, even in a Loud Preacher Voice if it helps.
- Break all contact with the Soul Tie, that means block them on your phone, Discord, and etc (change your phone number if you have to, this is much easier with service providers that online let you do it instantly now).
- Delete all photos and artwork, and etc that reminds you of them, because these can be soul tie re-tethers, or webs hat can draw you back into them via memory; and it is crucial that you disconnect form those memories.
- If you have any physical gifts or items from the soul tie, say a sweat shirt and etc, throw it away or donate it to Salvation Army or whatever place takes clothing and stuff.
At first when you break the soul tie it will feel like a relief and perhaps like a good night of rest, but beware, as time passes, memories and if you left anything around connected to the person will tempt you back (hence the artwork I chose for this post).
Diedrich Bonehoffer wrote a book called “The Cost of Discipleship” and there is a great deal I take issue with on Scriptural grounds about Bonehoffer’s Grace, but one nugget in that book that I have found to be profound is that “all your relationships have to go through Christ, no longer can you just relate to people apart from Christ because he lives in you, and now it a Mediator even in relationships between you and others.” (Paraphrased). I have found this to be very true, the problem is when you get in unevenly yoked soul tie, you do not effect them for Christ, more often than not they tempt you away; it is like a good classroom, insert a rebellious kid who shoots spit balls and acts up and suddenly the whole class starts acting out, rather than them surrounding him and saying “knock it off.” The reason for this is rebellion is in all of us, its the flesh, the sinful nature, and so when an illegal soul tie is formed with unbeliever, they are pulling on a part of you that you are suppose to be crucifying in Christ.
Breaking soul ties is not the hard part, keeping them broken is. That is why you have to take radical steps of cutting all contact with the person, or if you developed it around a celebrity or fictional character like anime girls, you gotta toss that stuff out and not look at it again online. This all requires discipline, which is a fruit of the Holy Spirit, “good faith, meekness, self-restraint (self control, self discipline)” (Galatians 5:23). The point is that you need to do it, or you will become ensnared with a soul not tied to Christ, but to the devil, because anyone who does not believe in Jesus is condemned already, “Whoever believes in Him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe has already been condemned, because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son,” (John 3:18) and “You used to live in sin, just like the rest of the world, obeying the devil—the commander of the powers in the unseen world. He is the spirit at work in the hearts of those who refuse to obey God.” (Ephesians 2:2). You basically are courting damnation, that is the damned, and they are not going to encourage you to walk the Narrow Path with Christ! This is why you need to pray, “And then the peace of God, which transcends all our powers of thought, will be a garrison to guard your hearts and minds in union with Christ Jesus..” (Philippians 4:7). Because your heart is where your desires are, “Wherever your treasure is, there the desires of your heart will also be.” (Matthew 6:21), if this soul tie becomes your treasure, they have your heart. So instead, make Christ your treasure, and ask Him to find you healthy soul, someone who loves Him too, who will urge you to good works and love, not pull you down into darkness. Amen.
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