From Vanity to Modesty Testimony- God Made Me Beautiful
I no longer dress to kill! My identity and self-worth revolved around my looks and my body for most of my life. The more of my body shape I revealed, the better I seemed to feel about myself. I was held captive by the god of seduction and vanity until God opened my eyes and, through his word, transformed me. This spirit of seduction came with a life filled with perversion, lust, homosexuality, and a horrible life of promiscuity. I delighted in posting sexy and revealing pictures of myself online.
When I gave my life back to Jesus at age 41 after being backslidden for 10 years, he began to teach me about modesty and godly standards of beauty from his word. I am no longer enslaved by my body. I now dress modestly; I no longer wear pants, make-up, any jewelry, or artificial hair. It may seem a bit extreme because we are so attached to these things, but the word of God condemns all these things because they are falsehoods.
When the Lord showed me that all these things were leading me to hell in June 2023, I got rid of all my clothes, perfume, nose ring, jewelry, and make-up. Before that, I had also shaved my dreadlocks, which were connected to a life of rebellion and sin. I had no dresses to wear, but I was obedient. I also had no job and no money, so I could not afford new clothes, but I chose to obey the Lord. I had to borrow about 3 dresses from my sister before I could buy new clothes. It was tough for a few months. I felt strange as I had been wearing only pants for years and when I wore dresses, they were extremely short, revealing, and seductive.
I was a slave to my body and vanity. I could not leave the house without applying eyeliner to my eyes. I used to look in the mirror almost every hour. I was very vain. I had to wear clothes that showed off my body. But the Lord delivered me from this Spirit. He also showed me how to cover my head in church and when praying according to 1 Corinthians 11. It was all new, but it has transformed my life and changed my heart.
I now no longer get my identity from how I look. I cover up my body and am not driving people to lust based on how I dress or draw attention to myself. I keep my body and hair natural. I now get to be the real me created by God and I love myself even more now for who I am.
I had never even known what my natural hair looked like because I permed it when I was around 14, braided it, and then changed to dreadlocks. As a child, I always plaited my hair, so this is the first time I have had my natural hair open, and it is wonderful to discover the ‘Mwendwa’ God created rather than the image the world and Satan taught me and the image I created of myself. God makes no mistakes.
My heart is more peaceful, and I am more focused on cultivating the adorning of the hidden man, good works, the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price. It is impossible to have a meek and quiet spirit when you are dressed seductively, drawing attention to your body and yourself. God has redeemed what Satan stole. I had taken up the image of the devil; it is Satan who seduces.
God has made us perfect; He said his work was good (Genesis 1:31). We do not need to add on to what he has made, as that is then creating another image, the image of Satan. And when we expose our bodies as women, we are not being our brothers’ keepers, because we lead people to lust after our bodies and we become seductresses. The daughters of Jesus cannot be seducers. We are to be modest and instead draw attention to Jesus through our character and good works and not to ourselves and our beauty.
God demands holiness, for without holiness no man shall see God (Hebrews 12:14), and holiness has to be both inward and external. Our whole body, soul, and spirit have to be kept blameless until the coming of the Lord (1 Thessalonians 5:23). Sanctification is of the body and spirit (2 Corinthians 7:1).
“Whose adorning, let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, of wearing gold, or of putting on apparel. But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.” 1 Peter 3:3-4
“In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array; but (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works. 1 Timothy 2:9-10
“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.” (Romans 12;1)
If you would like to learn more about what the word of God says about beauty, adornment, and jewelry, please prayerfully study the following scriptures, and it may surprise you what you discover. May the Holy Spirit give you understanding in all things.
1 Peter 3:1-4, 1 Timothy 2:9-10, 2 Timothy 2:13, Psalms 24:4, 1 Corinthians 6:15-19, 1 Corinthians 3:16-17, Isaiah 3:16-26, Isaiah 4:1, Lamentations 1:6,9, Zechariah 1:8, Deuteronomy 22:5, 1 Corinthians 11:5, Genesis 35:1-5, Joshua 7:1-26, Hosea 2, 1 John 2:15-17, James 4:4-6, Romans 12:1-2, Romans 1:26, Exodus 32:2-7, Exodus 33:1-7, Judges 8:24, 2 Samuel 1:24, Hosea 2:13, Proverbs 31:30, Jeremiah 4:30, Jeremiah 13:23-24, Isaiah 45:9-10, Revelation 17:4, 2 Kings 9:30, Ezekiel 7:19-21, Daniel 3:21, Leviticus 6:10.
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