DEATH TO DARTH VADER

When Scripture speaks of "dying to self" it is not referring to the person God uniquely created us to be, it is pointing to the alternate person, the “self” we have created in our own minds. This stand-in person is rooted in human ego. Ego is nothing but a collection of human ideas; it is useless, it is nothing but a false center. Death to "self" in a biblical sense is actually a release of our divinely constructed personhood, created in God's image and made to fulfill His purpose. Father, liberate me from every residue of the deception of ego. LORD, of my self, I can do nothing, yet through You I can do all things.