Many have been led astray by the idea that we must work up to a heavenly position by shaking off the things of earth. This is to begin at the wrong end. We do not put away things of earth in order to become heavenly, but because we are so.
We have the heavenly calling independent of everything, and in proportion as we enter into it, will we be separate from earth. But to make our standing the result of conduct, instead of conduct the result of standing, is a grievous error.