I don't mean to be redundant but God is bringing me back to this same topic: as a woman in this culture I need to be serious about purity and keeping my body, heart, and mind focused on loving my Lord. In the book of Ezekiel God says:
"So you were adorned with gold and silver; your clothes were of fine linen and costly fabric and embroidered cloth. Your food was fine flour, honey and olive oil. You became very beautiful and rose to be a queen. And your fame spread among the nations on account of your beauty, because the splendor I had given you made your beauty perfect, declares the Sovereign LORD.
" 'But you trusted in your beauty and used your fame to become a prostitute. You lavished your favors on anyone who passed by and your beauty became his. You took some of your garments to make gaudy high places, where you carried on your prostitution. Such things should not happen, nor should they ever occur. "
Ezekiel 16:13-17
He is talking about Jerusalem as His bride, whom He loved, cared for, and adored. Ladies, that is still us today! God thinks you are beautiful and adorns you with spiritual jewels and bling of patience, peace, gentleness, self-control, joy, love, and all them other good things He wants to give you. He lavishes on us such good gifts that it would be a shame not to recognize them, use them, and thank God for them!
He is a dedicated lover, and wants you all to Himself. It breaks His heart when we long after fellas, fame, and material things. He so tenderly and jealously wants all of our love and attention because He deserves us! He took us when we were only babes who no one else wanted...before we had anything of any real value to offer and made us His.
On a personal note, Jesus made me, a Daughter of my Beautiful Love and King, around the age of 13. I was completely self-absorbed, only able to care for anyone around me out of the ambition that they would love me more. I was desperate, pathetic, self-pitying and self-loathing at the same time. Get the picture?
But God, the Holy Father and only love that will never fail, asked me to be His own. I thought I had alot to offer back then: an outwardly moral life, good grades, lots and lots of pride and self-assurance despite my rising position as a social outcast in middle school. But In reality I was a cripple lieing by the side of the pool of Siloam, begging my way through life and living on the breadcrumbs of love from passers-by.
So God has changed me, shown me how very deeply He loves me, and how I really really really don't deserve it! He made all my friends abandon me, let me struggle in school, have some medical problems, all so that I could slow down in life and listen to His whisper: I want you to be all mine, Melissa Houseman, and I have bought you at a very dear price.
Christ loves you too, and wants you to be His. Don't prostitute yourself by giving your heart, your praise or your worship to anyone or anything but Jesus Christ! He is so worthy.
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