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Day 11
“The guy you’re attracting by showing more skin is not the guy you want to marry.”
- John Piper
Dear Sofia,
When I was 19, when I could buy any dress I could afford with my hard-earned money, I started wearing sexier, more revealing clothes. I loved it! People noticed me. Most of them would comment on how good the sexy dress I was wearing fit my (skinny) physique. It made me feel confident. Showing more skin meant significance for me. People weren’t paying attention to me when I was still wearing shirts (which were two sizes bigger) or when I was wearing jeans. So, it was something new. I craved the attention. I appreciate the praises.
When I received Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior, I changed. But when I started drinking and going out with people, who love to party almost every other night, I started showing some skin again. I wanted to be sexy. I wanted to please the guy, whom I was going out with, and his friends. I felt happy getting the attention of some woman’s boyfriend in a club. Being skinny was an advantage. I could wear almost anything “sexy” and eat everything I like without worrying about the extra calories.
Then God rescued me again (I could share more about this next time for it was a long journey of running away and ruining my life) and tried to be more reserved. But I was still wearing shorts, short skirts, and the like. I had a rule that if the upper part of my body displays a big part of my dermis the lower body should be covered and vice versa. As long as I don’t offend anyone with my clothing, then I’m okay.
But my ex-boyfriend, three years ago, used to say something about my outfit (mostly when I was wearing shorts when we go somewhere). Words which were uncomfortable for me to hear. I was judged by some of the people who were close to him too. I felt ashamed and angry. I just wanted to look good. For him. It also felt good that I could wear anything that makes me feel confident and happy. I wore clothes not JUST for the approval of others, I did it for me.
Now, I often just wear white shirts and jeans or skirts matching my black and white sneakers.
WHY?
Not because of anyone. It’s because I realized:
Treasures aren’t found in common and public places. Diamonds are hidden and people need to dig the crust of the earth and risk their lives for those precious stones.
I cannot control other people’s thoughts but I have the control on how I want to present myself in public. (Not just my clothing, but the way I speak and behave matter as well)
I want to conceal the visible but expose the intrinsic.
Intelligence is the new definition of SEXY. (Working hard in this area haha)
It’s really comfortable and cheap to wear shirts, jeans, and sneakers. (seriously!)
THIS:
“Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine. . . . Because you are precious in my eyes, and honored, and I love you, I give men in return for you, peoples in exchange for your life. Fear not, for I am with you, . . . everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made” (Isaiah 43:1, 4–5, 7).
Without wax,
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How Can I See the Beauty of God? (Episode 1311) #AskPastorJohn https://www.desiringgod.org/interviews/how-can-i-see-the-beauty-of-god
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Excellent resource on anxiety. We are all prone to it!!!
Anxiety: Sin, Disorder, or Both? #askpastorjohn
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Loneliness? Believers? Marriage?
https://soundcloud.com/askpastorjohn/why-was-adam-lonely-if-god-is-enough-episode-483
John Piper answers some questions...
“If God was all that Adam needed why did God say it was not good for him to be alone? Is he enough relationship wise? He is alone and not because God is not there.”
God did not want Adam to respond “No thank you. You got it wrong God! I am not alone I have you”.
He do not stop eating saying “God is enough”
God arranged believers the members of the body. In every part combined they make a body.
The eye cannot say to the hand “I have no need of you!”
The hands cannot say to the feet “I have no need of you!”
The members of Jesus cannot go to another saying “I have no need of you! I have God. I don’t need the rest of the body of Christ.”
God created other souls not just an isolated soul. It is even ordained we benefit from it as we benefit from as air, food, water...
1 Corinthians 12:20-25 (ESV)
20 As it is, there are many parts, yet one body.
21 The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.” 22 On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, 23 and on those parts of the body that we think less honorable we bestow the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty, 24 which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so composed the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacked it, 25 that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another.
It is wrong to say “I got enough I do not need God!”.
The point is when our human needs are not met God will not fail us. He will be enough. It honors God to say when all our needs are met he will never fail. it does not honor God to go to members of the body shouting we do not need the needs God has given.
Famine may come, people may leave, wells may dry, we may die, the good perfect gifts God has given us to *NEED* physically, In the end we do not really need it for nothing separates us from the love of God. It would just be wrong to throw the gifts like food, friends, water away on the basis of providence.
God is still committed to us.
Life sustaining life enhancing gifts is a way to enjoy God. Enjoy God in food, air, relationships. It will not be a competition. I have God in all those things not in addition to him. The need for people becomes a way to see here I am in the gift of God.
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Listen to Is Body Image My Idol? by AskPastorJohn #np on #SoundCloud
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from a perspective of ‘how do we worship God’?
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Your Job Is Not Your Savior (Episode 579; Hindmarsh) #AskPastorJohn
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Listen to My Sin Feels Good in the Moment — Why Stop? by AskPastorJohn #np on #SoundCloud
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Download the free Ask Pastor John app for iPhone (http://dsr.gd/Yapc3r) and Android (http://dsr.gd/12mtjkV). All content © 2014 Desiring God (http://desiringgod.org). Should I Pray to the Father, the Son, or the Spirit? (Episode 418) • Friday, 8/29
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Download the free Ask Pastor John app for iPhone (http://dsr.gd/Yapc3r) and Android (http://dsr.gd/12mtjkV). All content © 2015 Desiring God Foundation (http://desiringgod.org). Signs a Single Should Stop Dating (Episode 527; Chandler) • Fri, 2/6
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All content © 2014 Desiring God (http://desiringgod.org). Should Christians Watch ‘Game of Thrones’? (Episode 368) • Fri, 2014/06/20
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