What Does Your Swagger Say?

Does the way you carry yourself say something about the person you are? What about the way you dress or the swagger in your stride?

Several weekends ago I attended a fabulous Pop Choir Show hosted by an area High School with my daughter and one of her guy friends. The students performed catchy show tunes with entertaining dances. One of the routines, however, stood out like a sore thumb. After listening to little orphan Annie sing about tomorrow and the choir describing Ariel’s life under the sea, five teen girls in skin tight short black dresses sauntered across the stage wearing red feather boas. The song was an extremely suggestive number that I was rather embarrassed for my daughter’s friend to watch.

As the girls finished the shady performance, the young man with us leaned over and off the top of his head made a rather profound statement. It caught me off guard, but was absolutely true. He said, “You can tell which one of those girls aren’t virgins.”

Girls and women often reveal a lot about their heart, priorities, and needs in their dress and posture. How can we help young girls and ourselves become the beautiful women we are intended to be?

In “Redefining Beautiful,” Jenna Lucado defines beautiful as “what God sees when He sees you.” Think about that statement. What does God see when He sees you, His daughter? He sees you, the apple of His eye, the gifts He has placed in you to be used for His glory, the plans He has to prosper you and not harm you, the image of Himself, His beautiful creation. When we discover and accept who we are when He sees us...our swagger will shine like the sun and our dress will reflect the princess position we hold as a child of the King. Maybe one day someone will look at us and say, “You can tell which one of those girls aren’t aware of the person she is in Christ” and it's not her!