Uncovered to Covered

It all started on the first Sunday we visited the Mennonite Church. I saw all the women had their heads covered. (1 Corinthians 11:1-15) As a christian woman did my God really want me to cover my head? When we came home I asked my Mom about the head covering and we started to study it together. The passage made it sound like we should cover our heads. But there was that last verse my unwilling heart wanted to stay focused on.

1 Corithians 11:16 (KJV) But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.

We looked at other bible translations and it said the oppisite thing the other one had said. It said:

1 Cor. 11:16(NLT) But if anyone wants to argue about this, I simply say that we have no other custom than this, and neither do God’s other churches.

It was all confusing to my allready unwilling heart. It is like what Paul said: "My spirit is willing, but my flesh is week."We were still truly confused. While we were still searching, my mother came accross an artical that took that confusion away. They explained the last verse somewhat like this:

The custom which Paul is talking about is not the costum of the covered head but the uncoverd head.

Another thing is that back in Pauls day a woman with an uncovered head was not a good woman. So now that we new the truth we started to obey it. About a week or so later I got tired of wearing my hair covered. I didn't want it covered; I wanted to show it off. So I took my covering off. A few days past and during that time God was merciful to me. In my mind I kept hearing "Put the covering back on". It was so tenderly spoken. God was not angry with me, (He new I was week) but only kindly told me to put it back on. So I put the covering back on and He has forgiven my vanity. Praise be to Him who has mercy! Sometimes I still have trouble submitting. But I Think to myself, this is such a small sacrifice of vanity to what Christ sacrificed on calvary.

"He that is faithful in the least, shall be faithfull in much."