The girl in the dress was me...

As a Pentecostal girl we learned verses pertaining to our being set apart from the world, a peculiar people, a royal priesthood, a remnant. Deut. 22:5 was one verse that explained modest apparel, I Peter 3 told about us not cutting hair and wearing jewerly or makeup. Some people argue and question the meanings of thos...e passages, but to me I like my heritage, my uniform; that others know I am Pentecostal.

I haven't read the book "The Girl In The Dress" yet, but through all my 13 years of public school I was known as "the girl in the dress" they might not have known my name, but they ALL knew "the girl who wore dresses every day". is that being popular or infamous.

do you realize that when you choose not to CONFORM to the laws of outward dress, you immediately CONFORM to the dresscode of the ungodly? In Psychology class we learned that everyone will conform to something. Even ball teams have a dress code, what's wrong with looking like a Christian? We don't have to look like a pilgrim, but we can be cute and modest at the same time. Fashionable without being immodest.

I often wondered as I was growing up why some other Pentecostal girls were ashamed to wear long skirts... they would roll their skirts up around their middle to make their skirts shorter, or take a pair of pants and change at school and the...n change back again before going home. However, I notced that my friends (non Pentecostals) would start wearing skirts more often because they wanted to look like me. One of my friends (non Pentecostal) wore dresses EVERYDay for a whole school year and would walk the halls with me and eat with me at lunch even though she was a grade or two lower than me in High School. Guys and girls alike always had their hands in my long hair and loved brushing it and fixing it. (guys in grade school, I never let guys do that when I got in High school, lol).

You don't have to "fit in" with the crowd to be liked. People have always liked me because I am real. I am not fake and I live what I say and say what I live. One guy from school had a crush on me and when he called my house my mom picked up the other phone and said "she can't talk to you she is Pentecostal and will only date a Pentecostal boy". I was so upset at the time, but looking back I thank God for the shelter Mom provided for me.

I have noticed that in our Pentecostal churches our women/girls if they are Living Hard for God it is easy to follow the dress code. If they want to ride the fence it is hard to ride the fence in a dress and so they slack up. however, for... those not raised in Pentecostal, I understand that you have not been taught this way and it isn't like you wake up in the morning and say "oh I think I will sin today, I'll put on a pair of pants." no, it isn't like that... the Bible says for those who know to do good and doeth it not, to him(her) it is sin.

Obey them that have the rule over you.... that is the key here. What may seem to be okay for some is taboo for others. Just do right. that's all there is to it.

work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. When we think we stand we need to take heed lest we fall. To God be the glory and praise. Amen!



Thank God for His love and mercy and for allowing me to have another day.