Masks (1)
Tuesday November 1, 2016
We’ve just come through another Hallowe’en day. Throughout the country many children put on costumes and went door-to-door “trick-or-treating.” Some of them wore masks to complete their costume. Many adults were dressed in costumes at their workplace and later in the evening may have attended parties where the dress-up included a mask to complete the disguise. Everyone was seeking to have a good time as they pretended to be someone they were not for a few hours.
Truth is, many of us don’t wait until Hallowe’en to don masks. Sometimes we have worn masks for so long that we forget who we really are. A mask, of course, covers the truth of who we are with a lie. When we live behind a mask we are denying our true self and rejecting the person God created us to be.
You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb. Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it. (Psalm 139:13-14 NLT)
God created us in love with a purpose for our lives, and invites us to let our unique personality complement our relationships and all we undertake to do. This is what life with God in recovery is all about, becoming the person God created us to be and following the plan He has for our lives. When we dare to take off the mask and let our true self be known, we often experience freedom from the unnecessary burden our false persona encumbered us with. The question for each of us is, do we want to tell the truth, remove the mask, and find out who we really, or, do we want to continue telling lies and hiding behind the mask of a false persona?
What this adds up to, then, is this: no more lies, no more pretense. Tell your neighbor the truth. In Christ’s body we’re all connected to each other, after all. When you lie to others, you end up lying to yourself. (Ephesians 4:25 MSG)
Heavenly Father, from this day forward I commit to letting go of everything that hinders me from becoming the person You created me to be. Help me to tell the truth in every circumstance and leave the outcome with You.
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