11-21-11
“He
did deliver me from bondage” p. 127 Day
4
23 Therefore, acheer up your hearts, and
remember that ye are bfree to cact for yourselves—to dchoose the way of
everlasting death or the way of eternal life.
I have seen this through
my garden and the Law of the Harvest with the Z model. I can see through Natural Law that it is true
that we are free to choose our results because we choose our approach. It has also shown me that God gave us a “space”
where in to dwell and learn for ourselves by our own experience to know to
price the good and shun the evil. This
is what I work to do in my home: to
create a learning environment and all that means in relation to the paradigms
that I have. I realize that if I want my
children to learn for themselves (and to be the kind of leaders God has shown
me is possible) then I must needs ‘allow’ them to learn within the bounds (or
rules) that I set in my home. I think
too often our “natural-man parent” wants to just demand and force the situation
or ‘do it cause I said so’. If we truly
want them to learn for themselves, it requires endless patience to explain and
teach the reasons, so they can truly come to understand the Natural Law. If we base the laws in our home on God’s law,
then they will eventually come to see the wisdom in it and come to understand
how God deals with His children.
One lesson I learned for
myself through my own experience was the connection between morality, modesty,
and self-identity. When I was a teenager
I had a low self-esteem and didn’t know who I was. I lacked acceptance at home and went outside
the home looking for it in friends and worse boyfriends. I lowered my standards and got attention from
wearing immodest clothes. Looking back, the
saddest thing is that I did not let anyone come to see who I really was because
I was afraid. I played the part though I
was never at peace in my heart. With the
clothes I wore, I did not show them who I really was. I felt ugly on the inside and I tried to
over-compensate for it by how I looked on the outside. The world can never create a truly confident
beautiful woman- only God can do that.
God builds us from the inside out to help us know who we really
are. He loves us, accepts us, and heals our
hearts until we personally know His love so deeply that it really doesn’t matter
to any degree the rejection the world gives us.
Now that I have learned for myself who I am and that I am beautiful, I
can teach my children the truth. When
they come to matters of modesty I can tell them about being beautiful on the
inside and of God’s love. I know the
truth is in my heart, so deep that sometimes I feel like I can’t even explain
it. I hope that my children choose to
remain pure so that they will know where their true worth lies and know that
their powerful beauty shines from deep within because of their purity. There was a saying perpetuated by the world
(I remember it from the movie “Liar, Liar”).
It was in a scene where the son was talking to the Dad about beauty. The son said (probably not exact quote), “But
I thought that true beauty was on the inside.”
Then the dad said, “That’s just something that ugly people say to make
themselves feel better.” He was
lying. Fake beauty is only skin deep and
real beauty cannot be bought with money or surgery. Real beauty comes from knowing where your
true worth lies, and that’s the truth.
