The ego

There are a million reasons why someone would hide the trueness of who they are.  It can be pain, it can be shame, but what it really comes down to is fear.  It’s the fear of losing everything we’ve built in our character.  This character is what shields our soul. We call it our ego.  This ego will stop at nothing to protect itself from ever being identified as a falsified version of its origin; our soul.

Each time it’s recognized, it anticipates and plots the next moment our flesh is misguided.. Tempting the flesh with promises of pleasure, haunting the mind with delusions of the past, feeding our desires with false premonitions of the future. It hopes that through these tactics it may gain our trust and convince our flesh to imprison our truest self. Nevertheless, the ego is always destroyed.  God makes sure of it. Some characters get more screen time than most but death is impending.  It is inescapable such as the Most High Himself.  To Him do we return.  Yet our whole lives is a never ending battle between our ego and our soul.  It is the fight between real and imaginary, good and evil, light and dark.  Our ego is the shadow that chases behind the light of our spirit.  Sometimes the shadow can grow large enough to cover the light but just like an eclipse it is only for a moment.  We have to always remember that darkness is temporary. It may cover our whole being at certain times in our lives but we must trust in the light to return in its glory. We have to trust that the light will always prevail.