Just A Girl’s Personal Blog

“She is clothed with strength and dignity; and laughs without fear of the future” - Proverbs 31:75 | A christian, conservative, tradfem, and hopeless romantic who is a fan girl in many fandoms.

[uzaydangeldimuyucam]

The Chronicles Of Narnia/Narnia Günlükleri

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[christ-our-glory]

I see a lot of people posting on the web saying “God loves you just the way you are.” But how true is that?

We know God loves us, for He allowed His only Son to die for us. If He loved us just the way we are, why would He even need to have done that? He offered us a way out of sin! He offered us a way to be saved through Christ.

By saying “God loves me just the way I am” you are saying Christ’s sacrifice was in vain. You insult your Maker every single day by your apathy, your greed, your thoughts, your actions, by the things you say, with your ambition and all the other things that the Bible tells us are not of the Spirit. The “way you are” is a corrupt sinful creature that deserves nothing else besides to suffer in hell for all of eternity, yet He loves you so much that Christ died for your sins.

God loves you so very much, DESPITE the way you are. He looks past all the sins and disobedience. Remember that He loves us so much that “while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” He didn’t wait for us to stop sinning to die for us, He died while we were sinners. He loves you so much that He doesn’t force Himself on you, and you must be the one who must choose to follow Him. How would you like if someone forced themselves on you just because they love you but you don’t? That’s not love. He loves you so much that He gives you free will to choose Him. He loves you so much that He lets YOU decide where you want to spend eternity, heaven or hell. It’s completely up to you.

Despite our horrible sinful behavior, He loves us so much that Christ died for ALL of us. That’s one thing that blows my mind. We go against Him every day and He knows that. The vast majority of the Earth doesn’t even acknowledge Him and are against Him, yet He loves them all the same. So many people living their sinful lives, yet He loves them. His love is mind-boggling. No human being could ever love as He does. The Bible tells us the kind of things we did to Him and how He endured them because of His incredible love towards us: we mocked Him, insulted Him, spat on His face, flogged Him and finally killed Him on a cross. After all that, how would you feel towards the people that did that to you? Even after all of that, He still loves us. His love is incomprehensible.

God loves you, not as you are but rather, despite the way you are. You will NEVER be perfect nor will you ever be even close to being sinless, yet that can not let you stop from repenting of your sins and being true to follow His Word. You will never be perfect in this life, for this is a fallen world, yet He loves you and wishes you to follow His Word and spread His Gospel of love with your neighbor. God loves you enough to let you choose how you want to live your life. You can either follow Him or follow your heart’s desires. You can choose to bask in His grace or not. You can choose heaven or hell. You can choose salvation or damnation. That’s an incredible love to allow such freedom.

You can reach out to Him as you are because, despite the way you are, He loves you all the same. You can turn to Him no matter how broken and lost you might be. Doesn’t matter what you have done, He loves you all the same. He loves you despite you being lost and broken and any change that needs to happen will happen after you truly accept Him into your heart. You don’t need to be perfect to go to Him because you will never be perfect. Whatever needs to be changed in your life will happen once He’s in your life, if you are so willing to love Him as He loves you. How can you love God? Scripture tells us how we are to love Him and show Him our love: “this is what love for God is: to keep His commands.”

What if you don’t change after you accepted Him? What if you go back to your old ways? Then you gotta wonder how true your love towards Him really was if you aren’t willing to make sacrifices, even self-sacrifices, to properly follow Him. As Scripture tells us, to truly love Him is to obey Him. If you aren’t willing to properly love and obey Him you just had a little crush rather than full devotion, and like all crushes, it fades away and you soon forget all about it.

Does the Bible tell you how great your life will be once you accept Him, or how tough your life will become? Does the Bible tell you how the much the world will love you, or how much the world will hate you for following Him? Does the Bible tell you that your own family will rejoice for you, or how much they will be against you? But just remember, if you do follow Him and endure all the hardships, you will have eternity in heaven and eternity beats this short life we get to experience. Go to Him as you are and obey His Word and let Him change you from inside out.

I beg of you, don’t break His heart by forcing Him to send you to hell. Going to hell isn’t His doing, it’s entirely ours. We can not blame Him if we end up in hell because He loved us the entire time we were on this Earth and He allowed us to make the choice to be saved or not, rather than to force heaven down our throats. He allowed Christ to die a horrible death so we can have a way out of sin! All He ever wanted is for us to love Him. And again, how do we show our love? The Bible tells us exactly how we can show our love towards Him: “this is what love for God is: to keep His commands.“ God doesn’t want anyone to go to hell, as Scripture tells us: ”He does not want anyone to be destroyed, but wants everyone to repent.” So, I beg of you, please repent, accept His love, believe in Christ and obey Him.

Choose to love God as much as He loves you while there is still time.

[itsmorgancom]

“If you want to be holy then you must give time to God and not just intend to.”

— A. W. Tozer (via worshipgifs)

[just-shower-thoughts]

Randomly hearing your favorite song on the radio is more satisfying than playing it directly from your playlist

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Chihuahua

[christianwarrior23-blog]

Dear friends, don’t trust every spirit. On the contrary, test the spirits to see whether they are from God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world. Here is how you recognize the Spirit of God: every spirit which acknowledges that Yeshua the Messiah came as a human being is from God, and every spirit which does not acknowledge Yeshua is not from God — in fact, this is the spirit of the Anti-Messiah. You have heard that he is coming. Well, he’s here now, in the world already! You, children, are from God and have overcome the false prophets, because he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. They are from the world; therefore, they speak from the world’s viewpoint; and the world listens to them. We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God doesn’t listen to us. This is how we distinguish the Spirit of truth from the spirit of error. Beloved friends, let us love one another; because love is from God; and everyone who loves has God as his Father and knows God. Those who do not love, do not know God; because God is love. Here is how God showed his love among us: God sent his only Son into the world, so that through him we might have life. Here is what love is: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the kapparah for our sins. Beloved friends, if this is how God loved us, we likewise ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God remains united with us, and our love for him has been brought to its goal in us.

1 Yochanan (1 Jo) 4:1‭-‬12

[7xr9k]

People always think if you want to hang out you have to DO something. Like… No.. Invite me over to your house, introduce me to your pets, give me a plate of Oreos and your wi-fi password. We can sit together in silence for HOURS.

[faunna]

I’ll keep you safe

[crimesonsatin]

not to be dramatic but 850 years of human history is burning down and it feels more and more like the end of the world

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Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris | © Lesia

[foreverpatriciafree]

“Don’t treat people the way they treat you. Treat people the way God treats You.”

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[thelordfoundmysilence]

[heartsoftruth]

The moment the spire of Notre Dame collapses

[prolifeproliberty]

Heartbreaking

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[smiles-advice]

Here is your reminder to forgive yourself if you’ve had an unproductive day/week/month.

Look after yourself and remember it’s never too late for a fresh start.

[songbirdsandloveletters-deactiv]

I saw a post where someone was complaining about aesthetic tradfem blogs. The OP asserted that because her grandmother lived and worked on a ranch she knew what tradfem was, and that it’s not vintage aesthetics.

Well, I want to take the time to remind everyone that tradfem isn’t about specific social classes, financial statuses, or location. It’s about embracing traditionally feminine skills, values, and roles. You can live on a farm, in the suburbs, in an apartment in Manhattan, and still be tradfem. You can have the money to buy pretty dresses, or not have the funds to spare for those kinds of things. It doesn’t matter. There is more than one kind of femininity, and more than one kind of life. Any woman who chooses to embrace a traditional role has her work cut out for her, regardless of if she’s living in the country or in the suburbs, of if she slaughters chickens for dinner or goes to the store, ect…

Let women and girls enjoy beautiful things. Posting pictures of cute dresses and cafes in Europe doesn’t mean a woman is posing or faking, or even that she doesn’t understand how much work this is, it means she likes beautiful things.

Stop trying to make women and girls feel bad for liking beautiful things, or for being part of a different demographic than you.

[littlevintagedove]

Very well said!✨

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Dior | Fall/Winter 2018 Couture