What Does God Say About Fashion And Modesty

"I beseech you therefore brethren by the mercies of God that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, Holy and acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world, but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is that good, acceptable and perfect will of God."(Romans 12:1-2 kjv)

What the word is saying is that we need to present ourselves as living sacrifices, which does have alot to do with the way we act, and how our hearts are, but it also has to do with the way we look. I am sure most of you know that wearing a teeny tiny mini dress is not sending others the presentation of purity. No matter what women say, fashion, if it is very showy, girls are not dressing to impress others girls but are in fact dressing up for boys. I can tell you that truly, because I used to do that, oh I have worn some questionable outfits growing up, and I knew I was dressing to attract a boy, I thought if I could get a boyfriend, I could be popular, and if I dressed in a less modest way, boys would ask me out. So the saying about how "girls don't dress for boys, girls dress for themselves and for other girls" which is said by Betsy Johnson(by the way I do love her unique style) is not nessesarily always true. Think about it, if you were to go on a date with someone you would be dressing to impress the guy you are going out with, not to impress other girls with the fabulousness of your outfit. So yes, dressing can be for yourself, but it is mainly to emphasize your own ideals and your own thinking. Fashion is your personality brought to life, through garments so that people can tell just what kind of person you are simply by looking at your choice of style. If you were to go for an interview, within the first 7 seconds of meeting them they have already decided wether they want to hire you. To the world, looks are very important, but to Christians, looks should be even more important, because we hold a standard of morality and righteousness that should be shown through the way we dress. Christians shouldn't be careless about there looks because it shows laziness and carelessness, they should not be inappropriately dressed because it shows a level of immodesty, insinuating that you have a bit of licenciousness about you, that now because you are a Christian, you can do what you want, act how you want, and look the way you want, God forbid, the reason for becoming Saved, is not so that you can sin freely, but so that you can be saved from the harms of immorality. So as Christians, we must, as our obligation, hold ourselves to a higher level of purity through the way we look. Now of course, looks aren't everything, but they are very important, focus on your heart, and living a Christ-like life, but while you do that, focus on how you are presenting yourself to others, You may be the only true Christian they see, show them the truth of the way you live, show them a Christ-like person, even though you are not perfect, show them you are earnestly following Christ with all of your heart, and maybe, they will want to as well.

As always I love you and Jesus loves you, so have a happy heart❤️
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Parallels To Christ's Sacrifice In The Old Testament

It has honestly taken me years to realize this amazing detail in the Bible that only few have actually realized, this in a nut shell is how Jesus' life, death, and crusifixtion paralells in many stories of the Old Testament. This is not something one can plan, which makes the Word of God even more powerful than anything else in the world. All written word is simply fossilized human thought (I did not make that one up a pastor did) but the Word of God is living and eternal.

Moses

The entire life of Moses is the most direct parallel to Christ's life. First, there is a prophecy of the birth of one who will free all Hebrews from the slavery of Egypt only through the Almighty power of the Most High God, he fulfils the prophecy, and the people are free from the suffering and pain of Egypt. Can you see it? Jesus, God in the flesh came to free all people from there pain and suffering of there own sin nature, there was profecies of His coming and He fulfilled them all.

Abraham and Isaac

I am sure you have heard if this, Abraham was waiting many years to have a son, he almost lost hope but he was promised his wife would bare a son, and at 90 years of age she had a baby boy, Isaac. When Isaac was a young boy, Elohim told Abraham to sacrifice his son to him, devastated, Abraham obeyed The Father and went to the mountain to sacrifice his only son, the son who would be the father of many nations. I am assuming most of you know the story, as you can find it in the Book of Genesis. As Abraham was about to kill his own son, he was stopped by the Angel of the Lord. You see where this is going? Whenever you see in the Bible that a person was visited by the Angel of the Lord it means that Jesus himself as an angel came to them, this was all before he came to earth in the flesh. Abraham saw Jesus! He was part of a complete picture prophecy of the coming and crusifixtion of Jesus, the Lamb of God. Of course he had no idea, but we do now, isn't it amazing how God shows us everything before it happens?! He shows it through peoples lives throughout the Bible.

So what do we get out of this message? Well dearest, I urge you to search the scriptures for pictures of Jesus, because He is on every page, most people don't understand the reasoning behind why God asked Abraham to sacrifice Isaac, but now you know, it was to symbolize and prophecy the perfect Lamb sacrifice that would save the world from all sins, sicknesses, and shame. There is many other examples I can give you of pictures of Jesus, but it would take a while to tell you them all, I honestly haven't even found them all, but I am always searching, and if you find more please leave a comment and share, I want to know what you have found.

As always, I love you, and Jesus loves you so have a happy heart!

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