Session Two - Overview
The Sacred Code of Honor
Living a Christ-Centered Life in a Self-Consumed World
Most of us constantly battle with the fact that God is distant, intimacy with Christ is difficult to obtain, and our prayers don’t seem to be heard. But God says, You will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart. (Jer 29:13 NKJV)
Today’s young women aren’t finding Him because we aren’t searching for Him with all our hearts. We are too preoccupied with watching reality shows, too busy downloading the latest songs on ITunes, too focused on texting our friends, and too enamored with Hollywood’s newest production to let our whole being be poured forth in constant and unreserved devotion in the service of the Lord who died to save us.
Most of us feel we don’t have enough time for prayer and seeking God. But we don’t even consider giving up our nightly T.V. time, our weekend movie fests, or our all-day-texting fetish in exchange for spending time in His presence.
1 Timothy 5:6 says,
she who lives in pleasure is dead while she lives. (NKJV)
That’s a sadly accurate description of today’s young Christian woman. Christ-professing modern femininity is steeped in selfish pleasure; pursuing the pop-culture lifestyle of popularity and worldly applause, pining after the attractions and delights of the culture. And, as a result, we are dead inside.
In this session, I would like to explore the sacred code of set-apart femininity; a pattern for daily living that marks a young woman as a true daughter of the King. When it comes to our clothes, words, actions, thoughts, pastimes and pursuits, we must be, as Amy Carmichael put it, “dead to the world and its applause, to all the customs, fashions and laws of those who hate the humbling Cross.” We must be consumed with honoring Christ far above meeting our own selfish desires. Not out of duty, but out of delight. Loving Him with such ardor that we relish the opportunity to lay everything we possess at His feet. This is a convicting and challenging message, but one that will bring a refreshing breath of fresh air to our spiritually foundering souls.
