Girls, could we talk to you right out of
our hearts for a few minutes? It is awkward for us to talk about
something of this nature, in person, so we thought we would write our
feelings.
We are young men who have been saved and
baptized in the Holy Spirit. We desperately want to live for Christ and
not follow the ways of the world. Since we have been baptized
(immersed) in a Holy Spirit, we feel in our hearts that we should live holy lives. After all, our bodies are the temple, the sanctuary, the place where the Holy Spirit lives and makes His home.
We know that guys and girls are affected
differently, so since we desperately want to follow hard after God,
could we kindly and respectfully ask you to help us with a few things?
We realize that girls are primarily stimulated or turned on by touch. Did you know that guys are turned on by sight? So when you are aroused (sexually awakened) by a guy's "touch," we are in the same way aroused by mere sight.
Let us explain. When we see girls who
are dressed in a suggestive, revealing, provocative, teasing,
tantalizing manner, our sexual desires are aroused. Our bodies are then
affected. To be absolutely candid, let us give you some examples of what
we are referring to. If you are wearing a blouse that barely meets the
waist of your slacks and some of your skin shows while you are moving
around, or simply while you are walking, sitting, or kneeling, our minds
are geared to wonder what more of your body would look like further
up....This causes our bodies to respond biologically, and suddenly we
are fighting a war in our minds and bodies. And that war of lust is
continuing often long, even hours, after you are gone. We hate this,
because our righteous man wants to think pure thoughts....
When you wear low-cut tops which are in
any degree revealing, or when you bend over, and they are revealing,
this again causes us big problems in the flesh. Or if the back is out of
your top, we automatically think that you do not have the undergarment
on, and the Spirit and the flesh begin to fight again. Or when we see
any glimpse of straps and the like, we have trouble.
What we are trying to say is this: If it
is not for sale, don't advertise it. We really feel that the still
small voice of the Holy Spirit speaks to you and nudges you when it is
too tight, too short, too low, or too revealing. Will you listen to that voice? For the Scripture says, "Quench not the Spirit." (1 Thess. 5:19)
Girls, do you know what we would really
like? We would like to come among our Christian sisters and not have to
fight and struggle in the flesh. We do not need to have to wrestle in
the flesh at church or at church activities. We men, whether young, old,
single or married, are faced with this every day among girls of the world . But we would like to have rest in our Spirit man when we come among Christian girls .
After all, doesn't the Scripture tell us to "come out from among the
world and be you separate, saith the Lord." (2 Cor. 6:17) It also tells
us that "all that is in the world, the lust of the eye, and the lust of
the flesh, is not of the Father, but is of the world." (1 John 2:15)
We are the church, not the world. We
know that people often use the verse, "Man looketh on the outward
appearance, but God looketh on the heart," (1 Sam. 16:7) to condone
anything they wish to wear. This is one of the most misused/used
out-of-context verses in the Bible. Conversely, the fact is, if your heart is pure, your outward appearance will be modest ....
Girls can be fashionable and modest at
the same time. To be honest, we respect you more when your appearance is
modest, as the Scripture commands in 1 Timothy 2:9. We really do not
want the kind of girl who dresses provocatively, for we know that if we
marry her, she will still be that way in the presence of other men once
we are married.
We know that we have Christian
responsibilities toward girls, too. We must be careful to portray
ourselves properly. We must treat you like ladies. If we are really
committed Christian guys, we will strive to treat you like Jesus would.
After all, you are daughters of God.
Thank you, dear Christian sisters, for
hearing our hearts on this subject. Once we have conveyed the truth of
the matter to you, you become responsible before God for what you do
with the truth. We really are our brother's keeper . (Genesis 4:9.) We know that there is a "cult of conformity" in our generation, but we as Christians march to the beat of a different drummer.
Please, girls, do not say, "I don't care," but help us in these last days to live as close to Jesus as we can.
Thank you so much.
Sincerely,
Committed Christian Guys
(Source:Remnant Raiment)
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