What Message Are You Sending?

"How do you see yourself?"

No seriously. Really think about that for a second. Tonight for some reason, I pulled out a DVD we watched 2008 at camp during missions week. Its called the Truth About Guys by Chad Eastham. Now we only watched it with the girls one night, of course, but it reminded me of so much I still need to work on as a woman of the Lord.

Chad kept asking the audience, "What you think about yourself, is how guys think about you." I guess I never gave it that much thought, but its true! I mean how many girls do you know that dress inappropriately because they think they only have one thing to give to guys. Their body. And guys see what these girls are wearing & UNDERSTAND the message they're sending. Thats why guys can be "jerks" sometimes. But is it really all their fault that they're blamed for using us & then leaving us? I mean, yes its horrible, & I'm definitely not saying its right. But if us girls are sending this message out to the guys, saying we don't think much of ourselves so we're going to show off our body, we're not really helping our brothers in Christ either. Guys have a brain that is so much more different than girls.

Guys see the message we're sending out, good or bad. A true Godly man wants a girl he can win over. A girl that he can fight for. Remember Jacob & Rachel from the Bible? Jacob loved & appreciate Rachel all the more after he spent all those years working for her father's blessing for them to marry. Whether it happens alot or not, I believe that there are guys who want to capture a girl's heart. I mean, really, if a guy worked for you like Jacob did for Rachel, wouldn't that seem something worth waiting for? Rachel meant so much to Jacob, he thought so highly of her. Honestly what kind of guy would do that if he didn't love her? Even if a guy just lust after her, he wouldn't have done that much for her.

So what message are you sending out? Cause its up to you.