18 and Tattoos…

I will be turning 18 on February 2. My older sister who is 24 and married J said that on my 18^th birthday she was going to take me to get a tattoo and one for herself. Now this was talked about when I was about 15 and I didn't give it a second thought. Until recently this topic was never brought up again… but now that my birthday is so close; I have been praying and thinking about it a lot. I had done a little research on a biblical stand point. I found a lot but all of them were bringing up Leviticus 19: 28 ²⁸ “‘Do not cut your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the Lord.” I wanted to do a little more to see if I saw anything other than this verse. I found this lovely lady who wrote a little about tattoos (The lovely lady's website :)). She brought up Leviticus 19:28 but from a different point of view. She said “If you judge tattoos by this verse than you have to read the surrounding text too.” What she meant by that was that this verse in the bible was the Lord telling people who believed this as worship to false gods to not do it as worship to false gods. She also had a few questions for people to think about before getting a tattoo. I liked all of the questions, but one really got me thinking. The question said “Would your future spouse want you to have this tattoo?” now to fully understand why this question got me thinking is this; my mom and I (before my research) were talking about this subject (tattoos) and she said to me “Michaela, you really have to think about this. Your sister is married and her husband is okay with her getting a tattoo. Would your future husband want you to have a tattoo?” Now if that wasn't God telling me something than I don’t know what is. That hit home for me. I mean if I got a tattoo it would not be out of rebellion and the tattoo my sister showed me is really cool, but I am going to wait.

What I want to tell y’all is that it really ends up being something between you and God. No one can make that decision for you. Consider everything before you choose because it is permanent.

Please keep this all in mind when/if you get a tattoo. Of course do some praying before you decide.  :)

Love y'all! Thanks for reading my blog! God bless you!

                                                                       -Words from the south

                                                                                            Michaela

Revelation 19:16      On his robe and on his thigh he has this name written:

  king of kings and lord of lords.


Leviticus 19:28   "Do not cut your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the Lord."

Kids? Where are you?

                                                   

I was talking to my little 11 year old brother about how school was. He starts telling me about his teachers, and then he goes into his friends and their conversations. (He goes to public school) He tells me about a boy that is 12 and bragging about the fact that he can watch porn… PORN! At 12 years old! I didn't even know what the word porn even meant until 2 years ago! He also told me about a 10 year old girl wanting to have sex with a boy (also 10 years old) because she wants to have experience for when she gets older. She is 10! When I was 10 (only 7 years ago) I played on my jump rope and ran away from boys because
 “They have cooties!”  Not to mention he also saw a girl that is in middle school and pregnant! In middle school!

I’m sorry if I sound a little harsh but this does not make me happy. We are talking kids! Middle school! Be a kid while you still can!

I guess my point of writing this is that (other than for me to vent a little on this subject) if you can do anything for any young person to lead them away from that kind of stuff. Please do! It’s up to us to turn this next generation around! Don’t let this generation die! I will do everything in my power (with God’s help of course) to make this generation strong! I need help from you! Will you help this change?

Matthew 28:18-20

¹⁸ Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. ¹⁹ Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, ²⁰ and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

Proverbs 22:6   

Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it.

                                                               

                                                                 -Words from the south

                                                                                         Michaela