I shouldn’t dress like a hoochie??

Modesty is something that is definitely lacking in our society.  I’m not talking about how the prostitutes are starting to dress a little more revealing, I’m talking about the girls that go to church looking like they just walked out of the Candy Shop video.   But these young girls will try and say that they are just being “stylish”(because walking around half naked is so “in” right now).  Well Modesty doesn’t mean you have to dress like a nun!  Modesty doesn’t mean that you have to walk around in tons of clothes either.  So how do we define what is Modest?  As females we don’t find revealing clothes to be stumbling blocks to our purity, but Modesty isn’t for us.  The bible tells us that we are to  make sure we don’t do anything to make our fellow Christians stumble.   Guys happen to be very visual, and if you walk into church with your junk hanging out the front, it’s going to be very hard for them to focus on Jesus.  By being Modest, your respecting your Christian brothers purity so that he will respect yours.  So when we get dressed in the morning we need to ask ourselves,”Could my outfit arouse ungodly feelings in guys?”, and then get a second opinion from your dad!  Finally, your body is meant to be a gift for your husband, and Modesty is the wrapping.  When a gift is wrapped in nice shiny paper it creates anticipation, but there’s nothing exciting about getting a gift wrapped in plastic wrap.

Sex≠♥

“Sex does not equal love.”  Most people will tell you this and yet they live completely different.  A lot of people in our generation use sex to feel a sense of love or validation, but sex is not a way to get love.  Sex never = love!  In fact, love = sex, when proven by marriage.  Sex outside of marriage is the opposite of love, its selfishness.   The way to see if someone really loves you, is to  tell them you want to wait for  marriage.  But most people won’t do this because they are afraid of the truth; they would rather fool themselves into thinking they are in “love”.  So for all you people who want to know real love, put it through the only test that’ll tell, Purity.

"The Situation"-Krystal Meyers

This is song by Krystal Meyers called “The Situation”. I think the lyrics are pretty powerful. The line “but she knows she wants to feel beautiful” really embody how a lot of girls measure their worth by how a guy is interested in them. Then, in the second verse, the line ” suck it up and be a man” is right on, the sense that a lot of guys feel that sex defines their masculinity. So I hope you like this song as much as i do and I encourage you to buy the whole album ” Dying for a Heart”.

“She’s finding love in the back of a car

When is it too late, have they gone too far?
She’s having trouble drawing the line
But she knows she wants to feel beautiful.
She struggles finding self-respect
She’ll wake up feeling regret
Her purity’s been compromised
But she knows she wants to feel beautiful.

A promise made to treasure, you don’t have to give it away
Falling for the pressure, you can’t mend a vow when it breaks
Explain your hesitation, Jesus can be your escape
Don’t taint the situation, this love was made to wait!

He’s living life out on the edge
Gotta make a move, move it on to the bed
Temptation whispers in his head
Believe the lie, Suck it up and be a Man
He’ll trade her heart for a trophy, put it on a shelf so his friends can see
He has what it takes to get what he wants
Tonights the night
Suck it up and be a Man

A promise made to treasure, you don’t have to give it away
Falling for the pressure, you can’t mend a vow when it breaks
Explain your hesitation, Jesus can be your escape
Don’t taint the situation, this love was made to wait!

Whats wrong ?
I can see the fear behind your eyes
Your scared you might walk away unsatisfied
God’s love is the only one to fill the void
He’s reaching out
Just turn around and hold on

A promise made to treasure, you don’t have to give it away
Falling for the pressure, you can’t mend a vow when it breaks
Explain your hesitation, Jesus can be your escape
Don’t taint the situation, this love was made to wait!”

Cherish your Purity……and snow!

Its a wonderful thing! I know many people don’t think it is, but I love it . Today after I made a really cute snowman, I was just laying in a pile snow and I started thinking about a bunch of stuff and a great analogy came into my head. Purity is like snow. Both are supposed to be cherished because they are 2 of the most beautiful gifts from God. If you don’t think snow is beautiful, then look outside at any untouched patch of snow you will notice the little sparkles in it when the sun shines on it and you will realize how pretty it really is. Many of us take these two things for granted and we see them as burdens or curses and we don’t cherish them. Our purity is a gift from God. We are lucky that God is giving us another chance, because he could easily send us all to hell, but he doesn’t. He doesn’t, because he loves us so much and he doesn’t want us to suffer even though we definitely deserve it. Also I just want to let everyone know that purity isn’t just a calling for unmarried people, its for everyone. Purity isn’t just staying away from sexual activities before marriage, its many things. Its being clean of sin, so this means making yourself like God, and staying away from swearing and being like the world. Another similarity between snow and purity is that if you compare an untouched patch of snow and a patch of snow thats been walked through , which one looks better? Personally I think the untouched snow does or you could say the pure snow. That is my point, us humans mess up God’s gifts. We go through his wonderful snowy creation and make it all dirty. We do the same thing with purity, we make it sound bad, hard and definitely not fun. Also, we have done this with sex! Sex was another gift from God it was originally the way to get beautiful new life and it was a wonderful thing to be shared only inside a marriage. Then humans perverted another one of God’s great privileges into something dirty and we misused it. Now children are even doing it! because tv makes it look fun and exciting. Now everyone is joking about it and making is sound like its a human right to have sex with who you want, whenever you want. Thinking about this honestly makes me sad, because I realize that I have taken all of these things for granted and looked at them in ways that God did not intend for us to look at them. So I know I’m going to think about these things and ask God to forgive me. I hope no one thinks I’m trying to tell them how bad they are, because thats not what I’m doing. I just want us to cherish beautiful gifts that God has given us before it’s too late and before we mess our lives up anymore.