My Personal Testimony

When I was about 6, my dad and I visited Southwest Baptist Church. My dad liked it so we joined (note: my dad thought he was saved) and became members. And what was soooo amazing was that my dad, who thought he was aved at the time, made me wear dresses and skirts all the time. I couldn't watch anything unless he approved and it was rated G. I couldn't listen to anything, but Christ-honoring music (no contemporary stuff). And other things as well. And I couldn't understand why we did not do those worldly things that others did. Well, when I was 7, I asked Christ to be my Savior, but was I sincere, I don't think so. So, when I was 13, I was sitting in the auditorium, on a Sunday morning, listening to guest preacher preach about how real hell was. It was either Charles elliot or Ron Comfort who preached it. But all of a sudden, I realized I wasn't for sure if I was even saved. So, during the invitation, I went and talked with Mrs. Kim Hawn, who at that time was my homeschool teacher and her husband was the youth pastor of our youth group at Southwest Baptist Church. And she told me if I was for sure that I was lost and wanted to get saved then to come talk to her on Thursday at school. Well, I was for sure I was headed for hell and I wanted to get saved so I went and talked with Mrs. Kim on Thursday. She showed me Scripture and explained it all to me. And I asked Christ into my heart. Now, a year later after that sadly I can't say I was doing right. I got saved 10-18-01. I left in November 6, 2002 to go up to Michigan to visit b/c my mom's dad was dying of cancer, but instead of just visiting, I ended up living there with my mom. So , while living there I started living wrong and doing things that were wrong, I was not serving God or doing right. I did things that I will be scarred with for the rest of my life. I wasn't really happy there, but I wanted a taste of the world, and let me tell you it doesn't satisfy. It was all in vain. Everything in the world is vanity. While I was gone living with my mom, my dad got saved in October of 2003. Well, while I was gone God really worked on his heart. And he made a way for my dad to come up and get me in June of 2004. When I found out my dad had come to get me I wasn't glad he was there, but God knew what was best for me and I didn't. It took a while for me to change when I got back home to my dad's. I had started wearing pants at my mom's , so when I first got back to my dad's that's what I wore, except for when we went to church. My dad was not gonna force me to wear dresses all the time, he was ging to just let God deal with me and my heart. So, one day I went to the mall ,while wearing pants and a Heartland Baptist Bible College student who was working in the shoe department of a department store(Dillard's) happend to notice my friend who was with me and waved at us and so we stopped to talk to him(I was embarressed because I was wearing pants) . And I knew his wife! After that I stopped wearing them only b/c of embarrasment(this was late of 2004). Well, the next year in 2005 in April, God started doing a work on me. I started asking God to give me the kind of friends He wanted me to have that were godly. And He brought me godly friends who wanted to serve Him andto do right and be pleasing to Him. And then I asked Him to show me the kind of clothes He would want me to wear and wearing dresses have become my conviction and it is based on the Bible, also. And God just started changing me. Now , I have godly standards and morals. I try to do everything by what the Bible says. To act , dress, talk, and do right. To be pleasing to God. And, yes I do have high standards. I will not lower them for anyone and I shouldn't have to.I want nothing, but God's best for my life. I am not big on slits either. If you question this and don't understand, go to the Bible preaching link in the links and listen to S.M Davis's sermon on the Language Of A Christian's Clothing and his other sermons, then you will understand. A woman is not supposed to wear what pertaineth to a man. No pair of pants ifs feminine,there is still a figure showing, and others notice your figure. If it is an abomination for men to wear what pertaineth to women then why would it be different for women. Women ought to really embrace their womanhood and stop trying to be like men. The Bible says we ought to adorn theirselves in modest apparel. Some may say it is a preference, not a conviction, but it really is a conviction as, well. In the Bible it says woman are to wear a long flowing garment. In the Bible pants were for men. When it says girt up your loins, it's talking about when a man has to run or work to tuck his robe in his belt. A man's robe looked nothing like a woman's long flowing garment. It was made specifically for a man, just like pants were. But, women thought that they should be like man and be treated equal and have the same opportunities and basically be a she-man. But in doing so women won't really know true satisfaction or happiness or joy.