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Just recently I decided to get a tattoo, but my heart was in the right place as it always has been on this matter.

I didnt just want a tattoo to be cool, or to have some cool pictures on my body, no I wanted something that will show me that God will never leave me, that on my body I would have to read everyday and remind myself God will always be there.

So across the bottom of my neck I wrote in permenent ink, "Never will I forsake you"


Thats Hebrews 13:5

In my eyes God is proud of me for my decision. I love that people ask me what it says and it gives me a way to spread the word. When people ask why there?! I say whats the point of hiding it? When they say THATS PERMENENT I say, Well the word is never going to change.

When people say im "defiling" my body I say, defiling is doing something to your body to purposely hurt you, for example cutting. Its something you do with a certain state of mind.

When I was struggling with the questions, I would hear God say, its okay.

Thats when I opened to these verses that God placed in my head.

I read these with such enthusiasm.

Tattoos are a disputable matter.

Some feel convicted against them, and some dont.

But God tells us to never doubt what we belive in our hearts is okay. (verse 22)


Thats where sin comes in. If you go against your convictions.
To me this was never a conviction.
I feel as if my body, or temple, can certainly be decorated with the word of God.

The only convictions I hav e about tattoos is when they are not dedicated to the Lord himself. I feel like if my body is a temple then I must give it to the Lord, and everything I write on it, will be given to the Lord.

So thats why I decided to have tattoos only from the Bible, teaching his word.

The next one Im getting is 1 John 4:8, talking about God's being the only way to love.

But God also told me, to never put a stumbling block in front of my neighbor, so if someone I know doesnt agree with my decision, i easily tell them its okay, and show them these verses, I also wear things that dont show it, so that my neighbor doesnt feel uncomfortable.

You might be wondering what I think about Lev/ 19:28, the verse saying do not mark yourselves with tattoos.

Well yes I read it, and I believe that Lev which is in the Old testament was rules made for the people back then, to keep them safe, back then diseases were so common, and had no ways to keep people alive if they caught one, so i belive that was a rule based on keeping people alive.

But why do we have the new testament? Because those are the laws we live by today. And the only verse in the new testament I found was one that said "Do everything you do for the glory of God"

To me, my tattoo glorifies God.

If something is repeated from the old testament, like the matter of homosexuality, then I believe it is a sin still today.

But as for tattoos, I believe my body is a temple, and who knows a church without anything hanging on the walls, or without stained glass windows?

-rachelchristine