The True Self
The true self is not an idealized future version of you. It is the person God has always known beneath fear, masks, wounds, and borrowed identity.
Scripture
Colossians 3:1–4
World English Bible (Public Domain)1If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.
2Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.
3For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
4When Christ, our life, is revealed, then you will also be revealed with him in glory.
Which experience have you mistaken for identity?
The tree hidden in the seed
A seed contains a form of life that cannot yet be seen. It does not invent the tree; it unfolds what has been planted within.
The true self is uncovered and cultivated, not manufactured.
The true self is not an idealized future version of you. It is the person God has always known beneath fear, masks, wounds, and borrowed identity.
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