Aug 27th, 2021: The Battle of The Second Self



It is a bit more than 40 years ago that we learned about this computer. I can still remember that we used to go to the computer room to do our work and print out our assignments. An average cell phone today is zillion times more powerful than that computer. It is hard to fathom that.


Now we are entering the age where almost everyone has a second self. Somehow our smartphones have granted that ability. How many people on Facebook are showing their true selves? The second self phenomenon has become acceptable in our time. We have already struggled to try to understand the first self. The popularity of the second self might create more dysfunctional human behaviors.


Social Media has provided us with a buffet of identity options with the help of the Internet. We have many optional characters during the process of creating that second self. We can disguise our emotions and alter our sexuality. We don't have to stick to the same self. Different days will bring alternate items to the menu of the second self.


We cannot stop this fast-changing development. Transformation is what we need to consider while dealing with the growth in popularity of the second self. We need to remind ourselves Christ is with us in our true selves. We do not have to look for Him. We have to walk with Him. As we walk with Him, we will continue to let Jesus renew our minds and transform our hearts. We might be at peace with the true self then.


Jeremiah 17: 5-8

Thus says the Lord: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart turns away from the Lord. He is like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see any good come. He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land. “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose trust is the Lord. He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit.”

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