To Embark

I have for some time been limited in my expression of feelings/thoughts to the confines of a facebook status or in my own journal. This has proved inadequate. So all this shall function as is a new medium for self expression. I find that when I want to share anything on facebook I am limited in what I really can say. I would like to start this blog with an explanation for its title. I do not believe that in this short post I can undertake the totality of the meaning I intend, but I will attempt to sum it up. I have in recent weeks come to believe that the "self" what I would call "me" is wholly unachievable. I can never be "me". "Me" will always be my reaction to what society, in the form of all influences i.e. friends, teachers, celebrities, and inanimate things, acts upon me. In saying this I believe that God intended us to have this futility. We should be cognizant that we can not achieve any true identity. And thus realize that the "self" is inadequate and thus accept the gift of a new self in the pursuit of the likeness of Christ. This pursuit being the Biblical doctrine of sanctification i.e. the idea of killing myself daily. The beauty of it is then that we are like Christ instead of being like all the futile influences around us. A lot of this idea has come from the words in Lecrae's song Just Like You. Check the link for the song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2OZRFambeg