Raise Your Standards High

Not to long ago, my Mom went on a trip to Las Vegas with some of her friends to get away from the kids for a few days.

One day, they were walking down The Strip. One of the ladies had been to this certain part of Las Vegas before and she new what was coming, so she told the others "Don't take ANYTHING they try to hand you." and then they continued onward and as they did people tried to hand them flyers with VERY inappropriate images on them and my mom and her friends would not take them. And as they got farther down the street people would try and hand them to the people in front and behind them but not these women. The ground was covered in these papers, so they looked straight ahead and made it through safely.

They were tested and then protected by Heavenly Father.

You may ask, "What does this have to do with 'raising your standards high'?" Well, I'll tell you.

They raised their standards so high that people could tell just by looking at them that they would not look at or take anything  they tried to give them, but would continue onward past the cave infested with spiritual dragons.

We must also raise our standards to the world. We must raise them together. We MUST declare to them that This is what we believe in. And they shall not tear us from it. And we shall not fall into iniquity, no matter what challenges they throw at us, what tempests may rage around us, nor when we are shaken to the brink of our breaking point, we shall not falter! We love our God in heaven and we love our Savior Jesus Christ and we are not ashamed of this, no matter how much they may ridicule us.

And if we declare these things to all the world we will be blessed to the point where we will be able to walk through the caves infested with spiritual dragons and we will be protected with the whole armour of God.

Let us Raise Our Standards High.

~Aria