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Originally Posted by oletime
the only thing i can come up with from what i was taught jd is we are not to expose our body immodestly NOW whats immodest i aint going there thats between you and your God my pastor teaches it depends on where we are in our walk are we going towards him or away from where you have been in other words two people could be doing the same thing for one he is attempting to sacrifice or fast something like what you suggested and in the other case it could be a step down [not related to the same example if you see what i mean] i think in your case there is a desire to step up or in a different direction and not be stagnant you know if we always do the same thing dont be surprised if we get the same results i think you are to be commended it shows the heart
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Well I haven't formally committed this to God yet, honestly.
I'm only thinking about it right now-- and it has been a while since I have wore shorts in public anyway.
I don't want to be caught up in some vain practice of piety that has no value in the sight of God. I don't want to do something solely for the purpose of fitting in or whatever.
I do want to please God. I do want to get closer to God.
I remember when I was much closer to God, when I was stationed in Jacksonville, NC, I followed these standards (except when in military uniform) but I followed these standards out of obedience and compulsion-- not because I believed in them.
In fact, I hated them and thought it to be useless and phariseetical.
But I did them anyway and was a lot closer to God.
I want that walk with God back!
I want to supercede that place!!
I want to know the best way to get there from here.
I've fallen so low from that place to where I was and now I'm getting closer to Him and I just want to continue getting closer to Him.
God would sometimes (often) answer my prayers immediately when I was in Jacksonville, NC. (Often as in more often then than now for sure!)
Even though I did not lik much of the stuff that happened to me and others and the stuff I saw in general while at the church there, I learned how to pray there, I learned how to touch God there. I learned how to openly worship there.
In the flesh, I didn't like that church or Camp Lejeune or even Onclow County, NC!
But I love what God did in my life while I was there!
Those memories are priceless!
I want my walk with God to be better than that, today, and not just something I look back on and remember.
Maybe standards are the way to go for that to happen, but that doesn't make sense.
So I bring it here for discussion.
Maybe someone has been where I am right now and they can give Biblical advice.
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