I saw this give away tonight and it reminded me about how much I want to keep spreading what Jesus has done in my life and how He can save others as well. I wanted to buy some tracts and I am going to unless I get the tracts they are giving away. Tracts I have heard are a great way to evangelize to people we otherwise would not talk to about the Gospel. I have talked to many people in my neighborhood about Christ, but because we were friends and then we talked about Christ. But you can reach people in the grocery or people at the library by giving them a tract. So go here to enter in the contest for a purse filled with christian tracts.----> http://www.empoweredtraditionalist.com/2009/07/08/fashion-gospel-giveaway/comment-page-1/#comment-2568

For Christ and His convenants,

Rebecca

Well I have been pondering why I have been called to dress modesty by God. I was reading a young woman's blog and she referenced Matthew 5:14-16 and I just happened to be reading Matthew anyway and God has used my Matthew study to show me why I have been called to modesty.

"You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven." -Matthew 5:14-16

I have read this verse and over and over the past few days. And I have pondered what it means and I have seen that being modest does not only mean covering up our bodies. Modesty means for a christian young lady that she be set apart, like a city on a hill. Everyone should see that we don't dress modestly just because we have to, but that we have a desire to reflect our love for God with our outer appearance.This way one can see that we stand out like a city on a hill or like a lamp that shines brightly in darkenss. We should want people to take one look at us and say she is different or even say to themselves she is a christian. By dressing mdoestly we are not saying we are better than others, we are representing our Savior and saying God be glorifyed instead of myself being glorifyed. I want people to look at me in feminine modest dresses and say she is different. I don't want them to not even see the difference, I want people to ask me why I wear dresses and skirts and then be able to tell them why I am different from the way the world wants me to dress. I want to say that Jesus saved me and that they can be saved as well. I want to be modest, but at the same time I want people to say and see visualy that I am different.

In 1 Timothy 2:9-10 it says," likewise also that the women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire, but with what is proper for women who profess godliness-with good works."

Now I have heard both women and men alike interprut this verse incorrectly from what I believe God is saying about not braiding hair or wear costly attire or jewels. He is not saying we can not braid our hair or wear jewelry, but he is saying He does not want a godly women to be looked at because of what she adorns her outer self with. He wants people to look at a godly woman because of her good works, just like in Matthew 5:16, Jesus he wants people to see our good works and then our heavenly Father may be glorified.

So by dressing modestly and by acting with glory to our King, others will see that we are a light and are different, because of our outer appearance and actions. So God has shown me that dressing modestly in dresses and skirts is pleasing to Him and is a way to glorify His Name.

To some this might not be a conviction of theres, they might not define wearing skirts and dresses needed to be modest or to glorify God, I am not pushing or saying you have to wear skirts and dresses, But I strongly believe that women should wear dresses and skirts because God defines men and women different from each other. In Deuteronomy 22:5 God says," A woman shall not wear a mans garment, nor shall a man wear a womans cloak, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord."

To me this is saying that we should not as women wear a man's clothing like pants, we should dress as women and feminine to define that we are women. I had never thought about this before until the Lord saved me 2 years ago, but I would encourage women out there to search God's word about dressing modestly and femininely if they do not already. Just pray and ask God to show you what He wants you to do in the area of dress.

I pray that many will seriously ponder and pray about dress, because its the first thing strangers, friends, and family see of us. They see our outward appearance and it should reflect God and not point to ourselves, but to Him.

For Christ and His convenants,

Rebecca

I have not posted in so long, and I have neglected the xanga/blog world of my own on here. But now I will post some photos and relate to you all what has been going on in my life lately. I have seen God ever so present even more than usual lately ever since good friday. I just feel like He is walking beside me, but I have not felt this all my walk with Him. And just because I might feel Him now so close, does not mean when I don't he is not near, its just that He is showing Himself even more I have noticed than usual. I love that when God is there it seems throughout my day and I feel like I can go on and that life has meaning, even though it does, life is our place to serve God until He comes back for us;but, right now life in my mind and my vision right now just has purpose every waking moment because of my Savior being right there and me actually paying attention to Him.

Here are some verses that I have just been looking at over and over I feel like they were written for this time in my life, when I am uncertain of the future, but I know in this moment I am living for Jesus and that is my goal.

Psalms 112 was a chapter I was reading this week over and over and these few verses from it spoke to me the most, "He shall not be afraid of evil tidings; his heart is fixed, trusting in the Lord. His heart is established, he shall not be afraid, until he sees his desire upon his enemies."

I just love these words, I don't need to be afraid, because I trust in the Lord and my heart is established! No fear when Jesus is on your side. I also want to aspire to say Colossians 3:16 " Let the WORD of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom!" now that is a huge thing to concure, but I have been slowly trying to memorize and fill my heart with more knowledge of the scriptures.

Another thing besides building my faith by reading scripture and letting dwell richly in my heart, I have been learning another spiritual discipline which is to communicate without anger, wrath, malice, or filthly communication!I read from Colossians 3:8, which says," But ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, filthy communication out of your mouth!."  This is so hard for me and is a fault I have not mastered and will not be able to master, I will always have sin, but I am thankful without words for my Saviors saving grace and forgiving me. But this does not mean I can try and perfect my character by getting rid of my filthy communcation and trying to tame my tongue to be more Christ like. Like hiding His Word in my heart, this is another spiritual discipline I am working on. Please pray for me in this, as I want to do this Christ, my family, my future husband( Lord willing He sends me a christian husband) and for the Church family.

My father and my mother and sister and I have seen Satan at work as well as our Lord. When christians are growing and Satan sees that we are walking closly with our Lord he tries to pull us away from Christ. I have seen this in my life, my family, and church family, its been very prevident lately. My dad reminded me of the verses in james one which really gave me comfort and joy! But this is what our Lord tells us in James "My brethren count it all joy when ye fall into temptation. Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God that giveth to all men liberally and upbraideth not and it shall be given."

God says that we may fall into to temptation or be tempted, but this is a trying of our faith. My dad said when this happens we are growing and it is a test of our faith. We are growing as a family, myself also and our church and Satan sees this, but God says in his Word also nothing will come into our path that is too much for us to handle. I have asked God for wisdom in these two areas I have had a hard time in spiritually and with the other hard things my family and church are going through and He has given wisdom and other things I am still waiting, but I have comfort in my Savior. thank you God for sending all these verses at the right time.

Well there have been many weekend trips these past few weeks that I want to post some pictures from. My parents and sister were wonderful and took me down town to Washington D.C. since it is only 30 minutes on the metro from our house. I was wanting to see the newly redone National History museum. So we went and we loved the new exhibit they had on the civil war and on Abraham Lincoln. They had some of Lincolns clothes, such as his famous top hat, frock coat, and some other things. But we were so excited, bethany and I when we saw not only Lincolns frock coat, we want to make my dad one in the future for reenacting, but we saw Mrs. Lincolns dress! It was gorgeous! It was not something we would as we are only a poor family, but it was a purple velvet dress.Look at that train!!  Here is the dress in the back, it was actually two pieces, it was a bodice and the skirt, Bethany pointed out to me that it was two peices instead of one dress. It also indicated which she also pointed out on the description that it had a evening bodice as well, it only showed the day bodice on desplay. We were a little disapointed to not be able to see the other bodice, but this was still great!

the front

It said on the description that this is the day bodice and the buttons are original, but the collar is not original to this dress. They added that, so I don't know what original had as a collar or no collar at all maybe.

I really like the back of the bodice, is this is small bussle? I am not sure the term, but its pretty.

I like the detail on the top of the sleeve, forget what that is called. Beth will have to tell me or all you CW experts out there.

The frock coat-Abraham Lincolns

The top hat of Abraham Lincoln!

This past thursday Bethany and I were very excited to go to the Longwood gardens in PA with our two very close friends Stephanie and Lindsey. They have been to these 600 acre gardens many times with their family and told us we would love it so we went along. We were not disapointed at all the tulips and other pretty flowers and the amazing conservatory and we even had a picnic as well. So here is the result of a day trip to the Longwood gardens, I was amazed at God's creation as we spent the day walking and walking and walking and seeing as much as we could.

Here are all four of us, I am on the far left and Bethany is the red head. The tulips and other beautiful flowers are in the background.

I love this picture from our adventure walking everywhere in these gardens. I love the water and the way it turned out. The photos below I knew were so gorgeous and I had the perfect Bible verse to go with them.

"Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord." -Psalms 119:1

" Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with their whole heart. They also do no iniquity; they walk in his ways." -Psalms 119:2-3

dozens and dozens of flowers!! It was gorgeous!

we thought this was the perfect place to wear a regency dress, it would go so well with the gazebo!!

The person who founded the gardens resided here in his lifetime.

this is the wonderful conservatory that he built! It is huge and filled with just about any type of flower you can imagine!

more flowers!

and more flowers!

the end! Bethany for those of you who are friends with us on facebook will be posting a huge ammount of pictures from our trip in more detail! But I wanted to give you all a little taste. I will be posting more regularly, about once or twice a week these coming weeks. School is less hectic with the SAT being this morning, I am glad its over and we are almost drawing to a close of our studies soon in May, so we are exciting doing new reenacting projects, regency for our trip to england in september and modern wear, and I am doing a purse, apron, and hopefully a carry on bag for the trip. So I will keep you all posted. Have a blessed weekend and a worshipful sunday tomorrow!

In Christ,

Rebecca