Should you get a Tattoo?

What is the point of a Tattoo?

Are you trying to stand out ?


He was about to make the worst decision of his entire life.

Exodus 20:4
“You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth."

He came to me commenting about wanting a tattoo and honestly, according to this modern world I was the worst counselor to tell him not to.

On a personal level,  and as a person who is running back to God after realizing the cruel reality of what the world has to offer, you can now picture me trying to hide under God and Jesus' throne. I have come to realize that having a tattoo not only are people trying to get noticed but a desire to show the world who they are through them, they also seem to be lacking or showing a desperate need of "freedom of expression"

Deuteronomy 4:16

  so that you do not become corrupt and make for yourselves an idol, an image of any shape, whether formed like a man or a woman.


Have they not realized that the world is so busy trying to get on it's own two feet to notice you? To stop and ask you what your tattoos really mean? No one really cares except for those minutes in which they sat and talk to you; because everyone seems to be running in the "who is the most selffish person, marathon."

     The world is as corrupted as it is...

Perhaps they will notice you, yes, but have you asked them under which tag they placed you in their own personal classification?
    And of course, someone will ask you why you chose that design, everyone knows that each tattoo in someones body resembles a story with perhaps a meaning, depends on who listens; On wether its revelant to them or not.


       Does this means that now you can belong to a group, a place, a family or to what really?
Have you fullfiled your own desires, those which you had, your primary thoughts for freedom of expression.
            
Whether those who possesses them may not think they are not in a cage where they're desperately in need of being noticed or express something, they are in silent suffering... no matter who well or beautiful you want to put it, these people are in a silent suffering, period.

And yes,  there are many of them who are judged as criminals, many troubled one who have tattoos but there are also a giant pool of them that aren't criminals but you can be sure that they are in some desperate need, a shout of something. Many disguise their personality by being really friendly, as a matter of fact, the most friendliest people in the world, so to say, very socialable. Yet this doesn't mean they can't have emotional problems or be broken hearted and lost.

   If you come to realize, many of the designed tattoos contain a meaning for the person who has them, they come to express an emotional story,  love or affliction for someone or something; you should ask them if whatever it resembles, is it accomplished or what.



Deuteronomy 27:15
  "Cursed is the man who carves an image or casts an idol--a thing detestable to the LORD, the work of the craftsman's hands--and sets it up in secret." Then all the people shall say, "Amen!"

Often we go about in this world thinking that having a tattoo is the best thing we can do, perhaps because we have a message to give, someone's attention to call but what we blind ourselves to realize is that we are screaming our hearts out. The question is, "but to whom?"

Does people not know, that these are evil influences, who are you to tell your daughter or son to not get one, if you yourself have one. What type of model will you be?
  Some times a man begins with a desire of  a tattoo because it resembles something strong, a "tough" look. What he has no clue is that he is expressing that he needs to prove people that he is "tough" through a tattoo... think about it, that is vague, why would you need someone else to understand how much of a bad ass you are? Is it a threat?

Think instead, how much damage you are placing your self into your own body, first of all, this is something that does not belong to your skin, second, it is ink which you carving into your body, third, it is an insult to your own body not accepting it as it is...

If I only knew this before...

Ezekiel 20:7

  And I said to them, "Each of you, get rid of the vile images you have set your eyes on, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I am the LORD your God."

Amen.