Some synonyms with this word are two faced, cunning, or placing pragmatism over morality. A facade that shades over our eyes; that you're not the person that you were just 5 minutes ago. How does one switch between such extremes? Is it possible that one moment you're deceitful and cunning and next you're the person who dwells in the midst of righteousness?
Are we trading ourselves for masks? Masks of deception and masks of perfection? Is the righteousness that you now bear still righteousness if its hidden under a mask of pain and insecurity? What are the foundations that are formed upon if they are not real? Written in Isaiah 64:6 is this:
But we are all like an unclean [thing], And all our righteousnesses [are] like
filthy rags; We all fade as a leaf, And our iniquities, like the wind, Have
taken us away.
Are you then a great person + God = Perfect person?
OR
Are you then a nobody + God = Perfect person?
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Interesting one Jonathan... interesting.
But, could it be possible that the deceits and lies are just masks to cover up flaws that are human?
We strive so much for perfection that we forget sometimes, we would just have to let things be, to see it fall into place. However, even then, we still strive for perfection, a goal that we just can't seem to reach. Something that tells us, we CAN be more than who we are NOW, and to reach that GOAL, we would have to change, and to change, we would have to put masks on, and hope it stays.
It's like the first day of school, in fact, the first day of anything, where you would probably want to show a FACE of yourself, that you want to be implanted in those around you's memory forever.
You are right, perhaps some masks are just lies, but perhaps others are just shields.
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