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Re: How were you treated when changed your standar
JD,
I do think that there is value in studying the Scriptures and working out one's salvation with fear and trembling. Do I think that this includes whether one wears long sleeves or whether one believes women should never cut their hair or what other thing the women folk can and can't do (because let's face it, you're only as strict as you are with your standards with the women, because the men have VERY few)...
There are things I do that people could look at and call standards, but not because I believe they give me some anointing. I always swim with a shirt on, I would feel uncomfortable otherwise. I dress modest at the gym. I don't wear shorts to church services, in fact, I can't remember the last time I wore jeans to a church service. These dressing things are such a minimal part of my life. To be quite honest, I have to walk circumspectly, and fear and tremble before GOD a lot more, than I have to remember (I don't even really have to remember) to wear a t-shirt in the pool. I've got to keep my eyes focused on JESUS and not on girls in the world or sisters in the church. I have to control what comes out of my mouth, because, truthfully, I have lacked self-control on the things I have spoken in the past. I need to keep in mind the things I can do to help my brethren, and I need to know my own spiritual state, for when I need to ask a brother for help, or confess something to a brother or my pastor to get me back on track. I don't need accountability in my life for wearing a t-shirt in the pool, I need accountability for a brother to ask me, "How is your walk, how is your speaking- is it edifying, are your eyes focused on JESUS?"
We need to focus on becoming perfected on the inside and for our outside, just remember these things; be modest and be clean (after all a slovenly looking saint on the outside is not a very good witness of a GOD who values order).
-Bro. Alex
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