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Praise the Lord! God is truly good. I made it to work despite all that awful traffic and slow drivers! I am praying that we can move closer to my job so that there is less time spent on the road and more time at home. I work technically only 25 minutes from home – well with the way I drive. LOL But my commute to work is at least 45 minutes to an hour and do not let there have been an accident on the parkway because that can turn to from an hour to two hour ride depending on how many accidents. Yet it amazes me in the winter time how long it takes because there are some snow flurries that have not even accumulated on the road falling. I have sat in traffic for two hours because of that! So it is time to start thinking about moving closer to the job – praying for the Lord’s will because it will not happen if He does not ordain it. 

Today is the day before Halloween – first off I HATE Halloween – I always have. Jonathan went trick or treating twice in his life when he was two and three – his father took him – his father bought the costume and his father took him. I could not stand the holiday – funny though all Jonathan did both times was go to three houses and want to come home and give out the candy. Of course this was all before I was saved. 
 

I thought the holiday was dumb to dress up for and even as a kid – I did not like to go really. I did once as a teenager and went as a prostitute – THANK GOD FOR SAVING ME! LOL Yet as I look back on it – that is where my mindset was – I wanted to be sexy. Funny how some Christians still want to be sexy – what is wrong with just being beautiful. There is a difference in the wording.

 

Sexy – concerned predominantly or excessively with sex; risqué, sexual interesting or exciting, radiating sexuality, excitingly appealing, glamorous….

 

Beautiful – having beauty, having qualities that give great pleasure or satisfaction to see, hear, think about, excellent of its kind, wonderful, very pleasing

 

Diva – is a prima donna – which is a temperamental person, a person who takes adulation and privileged treatment as a right and reacts with petulance to criticism or inconvenience.

 

Okay – this Christian woman wants to be beautiful – forget sexy and diva. I know some are going to say that it really does not mean that when you say you are sexy or that you are a diva – but the definition can not be changed to accommodate what we want it to accommodate it to be. So think about the words we use my sisters – words are powerful and we can and will take on those characteristics if we use them. So just think about that the next time you say you are sexy and want to be sexy – hummmm you want to be about sex – okay then. . . think about what Jesus wants you to be and I bet it is NOT sexy. Holiness my sisters – Holiness!

 

The other thing on my mind today is still standards – the standards that we will stoop to and then say that it is good because our intentions are different. Okay if it looks like a worldly thing – smells like a worldly thing and appears to be like a worldly thing – then guess what – slapping on Christian before it does not make it of God. So many of us do that and then wonder why we are in a rut. If things are not the way the Lord is – then guess what it is not of Him. Remember – we are to radiate Jesus – the beauty of the Lord – hummm not the sexiness of the Lord and truly not the divaness of the Lord either.

 

We can not mix the two things . . . we are NOT to be like the world – we should look different – we should act different and the world should see that we are not like them. If they do not see that – something is wrong. If we are not loving and acting like Jesus we are in trouble – it is a shame that we have allowed God to become a backseat in our lives – only allowing Him to ‘drive’ when we messed things up.

 

I was thinking about this as I was responding to Sister Casandra’s reply to my blog from yesterday – we are allowing the Lord to be last. I am not going to say that I am not guilty of the same thing – we all are but then we sit around and wonder why our lives are a mess or why things are not going the right way.

 

God has blessed us to be here and we will put everything and everybody before Him. I am once again reaching out to my sisters and challenging them to put stuff aside for the Lord for a week. Just one week – put things aside and focus on the Lord. However He directs you to do so.

 

My husband ‘challenged’ me to get closer to the Lord so that I see more of Him and less of me. I am working on not allowing my flesh to take over and to be happy all the time regardless of my situation – which in turn is being content in whatsoever state I find myself in.

 

So I am going to write another blog for the WL4J Challenge!

 

Well let me go and do that… God is calling His people to live according to His word and His way – let us live this way and have life more abundantly!

 

God bless!
 


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