“The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask” earned its place as one of the most beloved titles in the entire series due to its unique gameplay hook of acquiring and equipping the different masks that Link uses to navigate the puzzles throughout the game. Solving the game’s challenges required us to find and put on different masks for each situation, and by the game’s end we’d amassed a collection of over twenty masks to change the way others saw us and open up new options for Link to finish his quest. But while this was the only way to succeed in this game, it isn’t a great strategy for us in our real world adventures.

If I’m being honest, I’ve felt the need to acquire many “masks” as I’ve played through this game of life, pretending to have peace or projecting joy when I didn’t really possess them so I could fit in with others and meet their expectations. But we aren’t called to “fake” our way through this life by putting on a “mask” of love, kindness, joy, or peace. We are called to “put on Christ” so those fruits will be organically generated through our connection to Him no matter what our current circumstances are. Let’s avoid putting on masks and trying to “fake it until we make it”… let’s allow whatever environment we are in to press us closer to the Lord, and as we grow in Him our lives will authentically reflect more of Him. 

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. Galatians 5:22-24

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts. Romans 13:14

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