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set-apartgirl:

Despite the well-meaning Christian campaign to boost the modern young woman’s self-confidence, the reality is that we do not possess anything beautiful or worthwhile in and of ourselves. If we obtain a worldly outer beauty,…, we only have a propped-up, hollow, fleeting appeal that quickly fades with time and age. As Proverbs 31:30 says, “Charm is deceitful and beauty is passing.” And if we muster all the human heroism and try to become a “good person,” we only have a self-made, faltering form of goodness that can never stand against the stunning righteousness of Jesus Christ. Isaiah 64:6 says it perfectly: “We are all like an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are like filthy rags; we all fade as a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.”

At first glance, it may appear to be a wonderful and even spiritual-sounding message to discover our own beauty and learn to love and accept ourselves “just the way we are.” But if we rely on something that we possess to make us beautiful, we cannot receive the supernatural, transforming beauty of Jesus Christ.

This is the whole point of the Gospel; the whole message of what Christ does for us. We must lay down everything of self and be overtaken by a power, strength, beauty, and grace that is wholly not our own. That’s when we find the ability to live out the supernatural, divinely beautiful, valiantly heroic Proverbs 31 life that He has called us to live as set-apart women.

We are to be perfect as our Father in heaven is perfect, not by struggle and effort, but by the impartation of that which is Perfect. – Oswald Chambers

 Our souls are dirty. True repentance starts by acknowledging those facts. We are defiled and tainted. We are utterly unfit to bear His holy name. But it’s not about our worthiness. It’s about His.

— Leslie Ludy, Set-Apart Femininity: God’s Sacred Intent for Every Young Woman

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Hooray! :) 
Trains are funnn! 

Meet “Baby” :) …don’t worry I’ll find a real name for her soon lol

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I really just don’t know what to do…

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davidnallapu:

Made strong out of weakness :

Why would anyone use Samson as an example of faith? Shouldn’t he be an example of how to throw away everything that God has given you and make a royal mess of your life over and over again? Well, yes, he is that too.

But Samson is also an example of true, God-honoring, world-overcoming faith. God himself mentions his name among the select few that are included in the “hall of faith” in Hebrews 11. And why is he mentioned? Because, through faith, Samson “out of weakness was made strong” (Hebrews 11:32, 34).

Even after all his failures, all his shameful conduct, all his detestable sins Samson had faith to come to God again and pray for forgiveness and healing. Imagine the nerve! And yet God commends him for his faith. In fact, that kind of faith is mentioned as one of the most courageous and admirable to be found.

Believer, if you have made a mess of your life, follow Samson’s faith and turn to God. He will hear you, He will heal you. 

Zac Efron doing it again…. 
Look at our boy being all manly and things! 

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