Letting Go of Your False Self

To follow Jesus is to walk towards the cross.  In His own words, to be fully His we must die to ourselves.  That sounds like the worst invitation ever until we discover that the “self” we’re being asked to “die to” is the fake self we’ve spent decades creating in order to survive as sinful people in a sin-filled world.  What if the “you” God created you to be is waiting on the other side of self-denial?