30 Day True Woman Make-Over: Day 17

Day 17
Modeling Modesty

Training your children about modesty at thirteen is too late. How about at age three? Learn why modeling modesty for young children is vital.

• Make sure that the kind of entertainment you enjoy fits what you say you believe.
• It is inconsistent for parents who profess to believe the gospel to let their children watch sexually explicit movies that promote unbiblical philosophies.
• Modesty should be a way of life.
  

20 Revolutions Around the Sun

On October 26th I turned twenty years old! To celebrate my birthday my parents took me to breakfast at La Peeps. It was very good.

While we were eating, my parents asked me some questions. The first one was, "What was the best thing that happened to you this past year?" I answered that changing churches to College Park Church was probably the best thing that happened this past year. The second question was, "What was the worst thing that happened to you?" I could not think of the worst thing that happened to me, so instead I picked something that was hard for me this year. Leaving our church was probably the hardest thing that I did this past year. The third question was, "What were my goals for this coming year? My goals for this year are to get up at 8 o'clock every morning and have devotions, take a ballet class for adults, and, LORD willing, go an a Vision Trip with College Park to Ukraine.



Once we were finished with our meal, my mom gave me a gift bag. Inside was a $50 gift card to Hobby Lobby (I like to decorate cards). She said that this was only part of my gift and that the other part should come in the mail that day. I knew immediately what it was, the Swan Lake ballet dvd.


After Daniel got home from his class that he takes at North Point, we all stood in the kitchen and my mom gave a caramel apple with crushed oreos on the top of the apple. Then she put twenty candles on my cake and they all sang Happy Birthday. I blew out all of the candles in one breath.


Later that evening, most of my cheerleaders and I went to the Sound of Music sing-along. It was quite fun.

All in all, I had a very happy birthday.

30 Day True Woman Make-Over: Day 16

Day 16
Training Our Daughters

Learn how to train the next generation of women to have modest hearts as they grow up an increasingly permissive world.

• Modesty is, first and foremost, a heart issue. Do not expect this world to teach your children how to be modest in heart, behavior, and dress.
• One of the killers of the faith of Christian young people is that they do not see that their parents faith has joy in it. Your children will most likely reject your religion if it is a joyless religion.
• Make sure you are setting an example of loving and obeying God. When you fail, be humble enough to say, "I was wrong, would you please forgive me?"
  

30 Day True Woman Make-Over: Day 15

Day 15
Reflecting God's Glory

Your outward appearance can reveal the inward desires of your heart. Do you want to glorify yourself or reflect God's glory?

• Your physical appearance gives an impression of God to people who cannot see Him.
• When you buy clothing, check your motives. Are you trying to draw attention to yourself? Are you putting people in a position where you may set them up to sin by being seductive or distracting?
• When you extend yourself, your heart, and your hands in good works, you are adorning the gospel and making Jesus believable.
  

30 Day True Woman Make-Over: Day 14

Day 14
Self-Control

Purity and self-control help you make wise choices, even in tempting situations.

• God calls you to exercise self-control over your sexual passions, your demeanor, your dress and attitudes, and your way of dealing with men.
• If you have self-control, you will find there a lot of situations you will never end up in because you made wise, restrained choices on the front end.
• The greatest freedom in life comes when you are under the control of the Holy Spirit. That is when you can really enjoy life and healthy relationships in the Body of Christ.