So this is all jumbled up in my head right now. Hopefully it comes out sounding logical and not like random, unrelated thoughts..
Please don't feel sorry for me.
Don't look at me and say to yourself, "That poor girl. She is chained down by her religion. She's not allowed to cut her hair or wear pants! Why would anyone want to live like that?"
Don't feel sorry for me because I am in love! In love with my Creator. That's why I do what I do, for love. It's not because I want to feel holy or be able to look down on people who don't believe the same as me. It's not because someone told me to do it, or that I wasn't allowed to. It's for the simple fact that God, the vastly incomparable entity who created this universe, along with the billions of others that scientists say are out there, robed Himself in flesh (John 1) and came to Earth just to die for my sins. Just to let me know how much He loves me. He gave the ultimate sacrifice. He allowed people to murder Him. Just so that I could have a love affair with Him, without all the old rules, rituals.
So why shouldn't I sacrifice something? Why shouldn't I give up looking like the majority of people on this earth? Even if it's not a "sin," or a "Heaven or Hell issue," that should be the very least I could do to show Him that I acknowledge His love, His grace, His absolute wonder and majesty. I don't belong here anyway! I am essentially an alien on this planet. (1 Peter 2:11) So my logic tells me I should definitely look weird. The majority should look at me and think, wow she isn't one of us! Isn't that what we humans would do if a little green man came flying down in his saucer-shaped space craft? Well, sorry to burst your bubble, but as a child of God, I'm an alien. I am supposed to talk differently, dress differently, listen to different music, watch different shows on t.v., keep different customs from the "world." (The "world" meaning everyone and everything not related to Christ.) This means I don't believe some things that are "politically correct" are actually correct. Such as homosexuality and abortion, sex outside of marriage, divorce, etc. Maybe this makes me unpopular with you. However I am not here to be popular. I am here to represent Christ, who was probably the most rebellious, outrageous person who ever lived.
But the funny thing is that some regular guy didn't just come up with this off the top of his head for kicks. It's in the bible. Seriously. See, I don't understand why some Christians pick and choose what they want out of the Word of God. Call me critical or judgmental, but that is not what I'm getting at. I honestly don't get it. I'm not going to get a medical degree, read whatever oath it is that they take that says that you're for sure a doctor and you pledge to not hurt anyone on purpose and all that, and rewrite it to my specifications. I wouldn't be allowed to practice medicine. It's the same thing with being a Christian to me. Anyway back to what I was saying. It's all in the bible.
1 Corinthians 11:14-15 Does not even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him? 15 But if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her; for her hair is given to her[a] for a covering.
It's my glory. So yeah, it has dead ends and it's not a pretty as yours cause I don't trim it..but God gave me my hair. And it is not mine to cut.
As for the skirts, that comes from Deuteronomy 22:5:
5 A woman must not wear men's clothing, nor a man wear women's clothing, for the LORD your God detests anyone who does this.
I don't know. There are a million things running through my mind at any point during the day but for some reason this was on my mind tonight. I just felt the need to explain why. Maybe someone needed to read it?
