Modest Women, Pure Men

This video has been flying around Facebook at lightening speed!  I ask that you take ten minutes out of your day to watch it and pray about what you hear.

"Like a gold ring in a pig's snout is a beautiful woman without discretion."

Proverbs 11:22

Ah yes, we have all seen the woman who calls herself a Christian that parades around the church flaunting her cleavage (on purpose...there are some that are completely unaware), stomach, long legs, toned muscles, the list goes on and on.  They desire men, and women, to look at their bodies, to lust after them, they crave the attention.  Those women are part of the "Christian Feminist Movement."  If there really can be such a thing...but I will expound on that topic in another post.  Sadly, these are the same women that blame men one hundred percent on lust problems.  These are the women that have no discretion.

Discretion (n.): 1. the quality of having or showing discernment or good judgement: the quality of being discreet: circumspection; especially cautious reserve in speech.  2. ability to make responsible decisions 3. power of free decision or latitude of choice within certain legal bounds  4. the result of separating or distinguishing

Modesty in women is a topic near and dear to my heart.  I have two sons.  They have not yet reached the point where they struggle with lust...Lego's, choir, and working in the woodshop are what keeps their brains very occupied right now.  They will grow up sooner than I am ready for and then they will be faced with that battle of the mind.  Though I am doing everything I can to train them well now, there will be women who will attempt to tear them down and grind them into the dust of the earth.  Thank God for prayer...

 I could go on and on, but I know that women who truly want to please the Lord will study this out for themselves.  So I will just give some links for a few resources on the subject below.  If you have chosen today to be one of those women who stands up and says, "enough is enough." If you are a woman who has chosen modesty, I applaud you!  I thank God for the women who are choosing modesty to help our husbands, brothers, sons and all Christian men that strive to stay pure!

"Or do you not know that your body is a Temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God?  You are not your own, for you were bought with a price.  So glorify God with your body."

1 Corinthians 6:19-20

Resources on the Topic of Modesty:

Christian Modesty And The Public Undressing of America, by Jeff Pollard

Raising Maidens of Virtue: A Study of Feminine Loveliness For Mothers And Daughters, by Stacy Mc Donald

What Guys See That Girls Don't...Or Do They?  by Sharon Daughtery

Secret Keeper: The Delicate Power of Modesty, by Dannah Gresh

What Does the Bible Say About Modesty?

Holiness Introduction, by J.C. Ryle

Modesty: What Does the Bible Teach, by Harry R. Osborne

The Blessing For Generational Thinkers

How happy is everyone who fears Adonai,

who lives by His ways.

You will eat what your hands have produced;

you will be happy and prosperous.

Your wife will be like a fruitful vine

in the inner parts of your house.

Your children around the table will be

like shoots from an olive tree.

This is the kind of blessing that will fall

on him who fears Adonai.

May Adonai bless you from Tziyon!

May you see Yerushalayim prosper

all the days of your life,

and may you live to see your children's children!

Shalom on Isra'el.

Psalms 128

Our family has made the decision to be generational thinkers.  Our actions today will affect the generations to come.  This has been proven time and time again in history.  It is a subject that is dear to our hearts based on serious mistakes that both my husband and I had made in the past.  Interestingly enough, wrong choices always start with wrong thinking.  And wrong thinking is always contrary to the Word of God which I have heard lovingly described as the "Manual For Life."

We have become quite sensitive to the future of each of our children.  Though at times it may appear on all outward accounts that there is nothing that can be done, when we apply the Word of God to that situation and humble ourselves in fervent prayer on their behalf, God is always faithful.  His Word never returns void, His promises are true and His blessings are for those that truly fear Him and choose to walk in righteousness.

I have listed below some commentaries for this beautiful passage of Scripture.  I encourage you to read them and allow God to move in your life and in the life of your family.  Generational thinking is a blessing for your children and the many generations after them.  It must start with someone, will is start with you?

Charles H. Spurgeon on Psalm 128

Matthew Henry on Psalms 128

Tyndale on Psalms 128

Captains Gerardo and Monica Balmori on Psalms 128

This post is linked to: Raising Homemakers

Vision, Knowledge, and Revelation

"Where there is no revelation, the people cast off restraint; but happy is he who keeps the law."

Proverbs 29:18

This last week, our family went to a used book sale.  This was a major event for us; the Ramsey County Libraries needed to downsize and the sale involved over 37,000 books!  We went twice as we could not fit all of our selections into the car on the first trip and we came home with over 130 new additions to our family Library.  Two of my most favorite additions are a 2006 World Book set and a set of Great Ages of Man produced by Time Life Books.  We came home with Science and History books, Biographies and Poems, Plays and Government books.  Books, books...everywhere are books!

Within the last year or so, God has been impressing on our family to make some major changes with our lifestyles.  One being to make our home educationally friendly.  This was a challenge for me since I grew up in a mindset that the home is a showcase for guests.  Children's things were shoved into the basement or attic and when guests were over, books, toys and art projects were neatly hidden so as not to upset the showcase.  All that has now changed and the central focus of our home is a learning environment for our family, cultivating creativity and a hunger to learn new things.

The central core of the education of our family is not education itself as it would lead to idolatry.  No, the central core of the Zwieg Family Education is God Almighty, Creator and King of the Universe.  With every book that is opened, every new discovery examined, every adventure taken we must measure that to the infallible Word of God.  What does He say about what we are learning? 

It is important to understand worldview.  Everyone has a worldview even if they don't think they do.  But how is the worldview measured?  We believe it is important to understand various worldviews.  For Science, the foundation of scientists rests in three places...The Big Bang, Evolution, and Creation.  Each scientist will make his assumptions and theories based on one of those ideas of the origins of man and that will dictate how he will view their findings.  The same idea is found in politics, history, and nearly every other sphere of life.  We must understand these worldviews to be able to communicate with one another effectively, yet, we must measure every theory and every finding to the Word of God which is infallible and everlasting.

As we embark on a journey with the new acquisitions to our family library, there are some key elements in how we will look at these books.

1) What is the authors worldview?

2) What is the agenda of the author?

3) How does the information in this book measure to the Word of God?

This way of measuring what we read can even turn a really horrible book into a learning experience.  We look forward to learning about Pioneers and the Old West, Thermodynamics and The Milky Way, How to Write and Direct a Play and so much more in the coming weeks! 

"The Lord thy God will make you abound in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, in the increase of your livestock, and in the produce of your land for good.  For the Lord will again rejoice over you for good as He rejoiced over your fathers, if you obey the Voice of the Lord your God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which are written in this Book of the Law, and if you turn to the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.  For this commandment that I give to you today is not too mysterious for you, nor is it far off."

Deuteronomy 30:9-11

Some of our new acquisitions!

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