Sorry. That was just a little confusing.
What I'm trying to say is, hear me out first!
The past two weeks have been, trying. I got in trouble with my mother. Not my favorite thing to type out on the Internet, but I'm just being brutally honest here. Honesty is always the best policy!
And so I'm grounded from a few things. And from a few people. But you know, it's all good. I'm learning something here. Something important. I'm learning to be honest. I'm learning to have more integrity in my life. And I'm discovering what purity really means to me.
Now before you stop reading my post...again. Think.
Honesty?
Integrity?
Purity?
What do they really mean to you?
What do they really mean to me?
Honesty
Meaning- The quality or fact of being honest; uprightness and fairness.
Freedom from deceit or fraud.
Chastity.
This is honesty. When I take a second to look back at my life, to think, do I see this? Is honesty one of the main qualities that I cherish in my life?
Honestly, I don't think so.
I don't tell lies. And when I do they are only little white ones. An exaggeration of the truth, a small assumption to keep me out of trouble, leaving a person out of a narrative when talking to an adult. Just little stuff here and there.
I'm not a gossip. But when I do gossip it's only about the important stuff. How someone said something about someone else that was just totally unfair! Or how much I hate this one person because of something they implied to me.
You see? We always have excuses for the little stuff. But once you start discarding the little stuff, the bigger and more frequent the little stuff can get. And that's what is happening in my life right now. I am paying the consequences of not being an honest person.
Integrity
Meaning- Adherence to moral and ethical principles; soundness of moral character; honesty.
Integrity=Honesty. You can't have one without the other.
As part of my punishment my mom is having me live out the word integrity. It's a coincidence really. Because the week before at my church internship called Element, we had to spell out the word integrity with dominoes. We had to define the word. We had to be an example of integrity.
And now here I am, having to suddenly live out integrity in my life. It's a great quality. One that I don't think you can live without.
It's such a deep word. Meaning one thing. But trying to live out integrity in your daily life? Be known because you are a person with great integrity? I would say that that's almost an impossible feat. By yourself that is. But I'm not doing it by myself. I have my mom to help me. My best friends. My youth pastor. And Jesus. The best helper of all.
Purity
Meaning- The condition or quality of being pure; freedom from anything that debases, contaminates, pollutes, etc.
Freedom from guilt or evil; innocence
Physical chastity; virginity
My mom wants to know what I believe purity is. That's actually a lot easier said than done. I always thought that purity was this:
I have a purity ring. I wear it everyday.
I will not have sex before marriage.
I will not cheat on my boyfriend, or someday my husband.
I will dress modestly.
And all of these things are part of purity.
But purity is more than all of this. Purity is an action. Just like honesty and integrity, purity has to be lived out daily. It is something that you have to make a decision about on a daily basis. And it's not easy. It takes time, effort, and commitment. And I have all three of those qualities. I will make time, I will give 100%, and I commit to doing this. But like I said earlier, much easier said than done.
Purity is an action. A life choice. It's not something to be taken lightly.
Take the time to think. When you look at your life, do you see purity? If you were to make an evaluation of yourself, would purity be one of your strongest qualities? Can you brag about it? Would you want to?
I'm just asking. And thinking.
It's good to think. To take a second and look at yourself. From your own eyes. Not from your parents, or your siblings, or your boyfriends, but your own.
Look at yourself. And think.
Know yourself. And be yourself.
I'm just saying, think about it.
I want you to look at your life as this. You are set apart. We are in this world but not of it. A city on a hill that can not be taken.
Treasure your life. Own it! Live it to the fullest!
I just want you to know that this life is yours. Make the most of it.
But while you are doing that, define these three words.
Honesty.
Integrity.
Purity.
This is for both girls and guys! These are qualities that both genders should have and cherish.
If you can life out these three actions on a daily basis, then you're doing pretty good.
That's my goal.
It took a lot of thinking for me to be able to say those three words. "That's my goal." But when you think about it, it's truly amazing too. My goal is to be the best me that I can be while living out honesty, integrity, and purity in my life.
I was just thinking...and this is what came out. Thanks for picking my brain!
Thoughtfully,
Just Thinking
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