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Thank you.

I just want to put a little lip on it.

Do I need it?

A little bit.

A little bit, right?

Are we filming?

Are you filming this?

All right.

All right.

Okay, so for each other's names.

So for this episode of Vanity, I brought makeup wipes.

We're taking it all off. That was good.
They put in our hair in a slink bag bun. Yeah, that's what the people want, huh? I'm so sorry.
Oh, yeah. Oh, since I'm not, since I don't care about my vanity, I just let this stuff stay in your tooth.
That's a good idea. I think that's a good idea, right? Uh-huh.
Is it in the tooth? The tooth. God, you look so beautiful.
You look like a princess for summer. I'm actually not kidding.
I do. You look like a summery angel.
No, I definitely didn't yesterday. I am.
I looked like I was... I'm so...
So hard for me trying to be edgy! I like you, Emma. I'm not.
You look like me. I know, I looked like I was in the Chilean gang.
Is that right? Is it not? Can I what? No, I looked like I was in the Chilean gang. Is that right? Is it not? Okay, so for today's episode of Vanity, yeah, that's what they say.
Hey, can you guys come in just bare? And all I can think about is when me and you wake up in the morning and we look like axe burners with our ears. We look like actual...
Actually, I do want to speak to that. I want everyone who's like, if you love Jesus so much, then don't wear any makeup on the podcast.
You don't want that. I'm telling you, these are studio lights.
If we come in here with no makeup, we will look like we have beady little eyes. Or we won't.
I'm just kidding. We're so pretty.

Yeah, we look like this when we wake up in the morning. You've got to call us out like that.

Guys, we're definitely going to find husbands now, Paige.

To my future husband, this is exactly what I look like when I wake up in the morning.

Every single day.

Lashes and all.

I actually have permanent falsies.

Oh my gosh.

Are they going to hear any of that?

They will, right?

Are you sure?

Are you filming me?

Oh, shucks.

Do we have a noun yet?

Shoot the messenger.

What a good segue. Is that what a segue is? Huh? No What is it? Oh yeah It's a What's that word that you said? Oh Inevitable You are an angel What was your name one more time? Thomas Louise Jerome That's who picked on me Louise Jerome Jerome? Louise Jerome, if you're watching this, you're about to get it.
She picked on me. Thank you, Thomas.
Louise, oh, I thought it was a guy. You thought a guy picked on me? I don't know.
Louise? You know the guys aren't picking on me. I'm just kidding.
You're so modest. I'm meek and I'm both.
You know what I'm laughing

about though last night? What did I do?

Take it out.

Oh yeah.

Oh yeah.

I was like, okay

Shmereyella.

Anyways, hey guys, I am Ari.

I'm sorry, let me do that over. Oh, sure.

Hey guys, I'm

I'm I am Ari. I'm sorry, let me do that over.
Oh, sure. Hey guys, I'm...

I'm scared of food.

They said I was stupid.

If I... You wonder why.
You wonder why we're single okay what guy would ever watch a podcast you're like oh that's who I want why do we have made ourselves absolutely Ridiculately Clinically insane We have made ourselves You were thinking that Because they had me thinking those thoughts I'm sorry you guys I'm sorry Guys the only way to get through life is to laugh at your pain. By the way, the inside joke comes in.
To get through life is to laugh at your pain. Yeah.
Yeah. Speaking of that, let's try to have a little fun today.
Please, for the love of God, no crying today. Everyone thinks I'm ugly ugly we keep doing that because aria and i make fun of ourselves every time we see ourselves crying on the podcast we always go i picture that meme of kim kardashian i'm like is that what we look literally people tag me in stories and i want to repost it because i love them and i like want to repost but then it it'll have me crying and talk.
So I'll just add music over it so no one can hear what I said. You don't want to know what my clips are? Hey, everyone.
I'm Ari. And I'm Ange.
And we are Girls Gone Bible, where we talk about everything Jesus, spirituality, mental health. Like we say, come as you are.
Just don't stay that way. Good.

You guys, we're so happy.

Thank you, Jesus.

I don't know if you guys have been praying for our joy or if people have been praying for us, but we are so much better.

It just feels like I can laugh again.

There's just something lifted off.

I don't know what's going on, but thank you, Jesus. Hallelujah.
Truly. Truly.
Okay. No, because I was just thinking about how tough last night was.
I know. Let's see.
Today we're talking about vanity, and we want to do an updated modesty episode where we just talk about everything to do with vanity, modesty, looks, appearance. We kind of spoke a little bit about it in the body image episode, but I think that there's just more to it and we could really zone in on just what it means to be what beauty means and like what God thinks about when he thinks about our outward appearance and what the Bible says about vanity.
You know, it's so funny. I don't know.
This is so off. I almost wish we could sit together.
Do you want me to come over there? No, because we have opposite sides. Oh, yeah.
I always give up my opposite. Hey, that's a good thing about vanity.
Oh, so Ari and I know that God put us together for a reason because we have opposite good sides, and so it works. Whenever we have a guest, I don't know if you guys have ever seen me over there, but I want you to know that I give up my good side every single time when I sit over there.
Honestly, because you offer it sometimes. You're like, it's okay, you did it last time.
And I'm like, you know what? No, because I need to. You've never offered him.
I've never. She knows I'll be pissed.
She knows I'll give her an attitude the whole day. I don't want to do that.
You can have it. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines vanity as inflated pride in oneself or one's appearance or something that is vain, empty, or valueless.
People who are vain are normally self-absorbed, selfish, and prideful. So vanity isn't just about your looks, although that is a major component of it.
It is an inflated pride in yourself. So it could be in your achievements, in your accolades, in your wisdom

and knowledge. And like, it could just be, it just like comes down to pride, really.
But a lot of it

does have to do with be having vanity about your looks. Yeah.
So I'll just read this little thing from Ecclesiastes really quick.

It is, this is Solomon speaking.

Solomon had everything.

He had riches, he had wisdom, he had power. And you will see in this, in this verse, in this passage that Solomon came to the conclusion that all of us, all of this is empty.
It means nothing. And he's come to this point in his life where he's actually backslid in the faith so much that he's questioning the existence of God.

And you'll see that when he doesn't have God in his life, no matter all that he has,

it all means nothing to him. It's all empty.
And so the whole book of Ecclesiastes is-

I would have called it Elastics.

Like a year ago.

Not now.

It's a book.

It's like one of the most, they call it just like the most pessimistic scripture, book of scripture, because it is so sad.

And it's not until the very end that Solomon actually comes to the conclusion of why he feels the way that he does. But this passage is called, Everything is Meaningless.
It's Ecclesiastes chapter one. Everything is meaningless, says the teacher, completely meaningless.
What do people get for all their hard work under the sun? Generations come and generations go, but the earth never changes. The sun rises and the sun sets, then hurries around to rise again.
The wind blows south and then turns north. Around and around it goes, blowing in circles.
Rivers run into the sea, but the sea is never full. Then the water returns again to the rivers and flows out again to the sea.
Everything is wearisome beyond description. No matter how much we see, we are never satisfied.
No matter how much we hear, we are not content. History merely repeats itself.
It has all been done before. Nothing new under the sun is truly new.
Sometimes people say, here's something new, but actually it is old. Nothing is ever truly new.
We don't remember what happened in the past, and in future generations, no one will remember what we are doing now. So this first part, everything is meaningless, completely meaningless.
In another translation, it says, vanity of vanities, says the preacher, vanity of vanities, all is vanity. And so he's thinking, he's basically speaking to the fact that everything is meaningless, because at this point, he doesn't have God in his life.
So that's his perspective on life. And I think it just goes so well with the fact that when we speak about vanity today and thinking about our appearance and thinking about the things that aren't of God, we will find ourselves time and time again.
And I know that we all know this, but it's such a good reminder that if you don't have Jesus at the center of everything you do, it is valueless. It is empty.
It is fleeting. It is futile.
And you will simply never be satisfied. You will never be fulfilled.
And that is just the absolute truth of it. Oh, yes.
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slash ggb for 20% off your first system. I've said it on here before, but back in the day, I used to be obsessed with taking photos of myself.

It's weird because I wasn't vain in the sense that if I was like with somebody or with friends or just like in the presence of somebody else, like my focus was never on myself. It was never on my looks.
It was always on the person and being present in the moment. And so I didn't put so much value into my looks.

And at the same time, I put so much value into my, into my appearance. I used to take photos of myself all the time.
I had many, many photos of myself. I used to post on my Instagram story, photos of myself and videos of myself all day long.
I mean, it's like really all I did. I was obsessed with the validation that I got from people saying nice things about my looks.
And then over time, this is such a massive area that God has worked in, in me, that I no longer truly from the bottom of my heart feel anything when people validate my looks.

And it's simply not something that I think about the way that I used to.

Again, clearly put effort into my appearance.

Clearly care about hair, nails, makeup.

I think it's fun.

I'm a girl.

And I will never not take care of myself.

And there's nothing wrong with that.

I will never.

That's a beautiful thing. Yeah.
This is the body that God gave me. I'm thinking about, I'm so sorry.
You guys have to watch one of our first videos on modesty. We had lost our minds and Angela's sitting there and she is trying to convince everyone why she gets her nails done.
She goes, I mean, I have to get my nails done. I like, what did you say? I get.
I said, I said, I was really overcome. It was the beginning where like people's comments were getting to me so much.
And I was like, you guys, like I pick up my things and they bleed and I struggle. So I got to get my nails done.
I got to get my nails done. Otherwise I have to wear band band-aids.
And literally, Ari goes, hey, it's okay. You can get your nails done.
You don't have to stand up for yourself. But keep going.
No, he's changed. He's changed me.
He's truly from the bottom of my heart. He has changed me from the inside out.
I don't put emphasis on the way that I look anymore. I can't say I never take photos, but I will say I take a photo once in a blue moon.
The only reason I really ever take, have somebody else take a photo of me is if other people around me are taking photos. And it reminds me that like social media is a thing and this is something we should do.
I never post on, I rarely post on my personal Instagram anymore. And people ask me all the time, why aren't you trying to grow your Instagram? And I'm just like, I'm, first of all, I don't, I don't care.
I don't care. I post on Girls Gone Bible all day long because that's what I care about.
I care about the ministry and I care about the community. And this might sound like we're just coming on saying things that we have to, but this is genuinely the absolute truth that God has stripped the vanity away from me.
Like everything, just anything, just the idea of thinking about myself so much is gone. Well, even like for ourselves, but I think you and I used to do it for men.
Yeah, yeah. I think that's why like, you know, I did you like we used to have to kind of have this sex appeal because that's how we thought people the people would want us.
Yeah. Let's talk about sex appeal.
It's gone. It's gone.
You heard it here, here person we're not ashamed to say that there was a point in time where having sex appeal was a very important thing sex sells in our world that we live in and to not be sexy is like a really bad thing that is something and I think it's so sweet and I love it and from the bottom of my heart and I mean this, I can't believe that there was ever a time that being sexy was a priority for me. I don't want to be sexy.
It was a priority for us. I don't want anyone looking at me like that.
I don't want any. Do you know what it feels like for the first time in my life that men don't objectify me? maybe they do behind my back but like to from my understanding i am never in a position

where men look at me for one thing i don't experience that anymore and it is so freeing and it feels so good and i think back to a time where every man that i met looked at me in a very particular way for a very certain thing, no matter who it was. And nobody.
And now you're respected. Respected.
Nobody looks at me like that. We were saying it the other day.
Sometimes we take photos with people and like our model friends will be like working the camera. And we're on the end like, hmm? I look like legit Sponge and photos and I never God really God really did something I he took he took a girl that did my eyes and my photos I didn't even know how to be anything but that I truly even if I tried man I I don't I don't have that but it comes from living in in holiness living in purity and.
And then once we started doing that walk, it was like it was gone. It was like the eyes, we look different.
I don't even know who that was when I look at old photos. I get so freaked out when I see that girl.
It breaks my heart when I see photos of like just my essence, my very essence. Purity is a natural response to being close to Jesus.
It really is. And that's why we say purity is not just not having sex.
Purity is your heart posture. It's the state of your heart.
It's the condition of your heart. And so for us, yes, not having sex has a lot to do with it.
But not watching things that willoke that's a certain emotion music is so integral for me if I listen to music that has like any sort of something I feel myself like resorting back to that I can't they they played bad bunny at my house and I was like I don't like the way this feels I you know I can't listen to that stuff I can't i really can't yeah when you're when it's it's it's really weird and you don't even even for us now literally like when they say he will change the desires of your heart it's true the way and it's it's i never thought that we'd be able to live in this purity and this in this holiness of not even wanting it. And actually, like, I can't even look that way.
It's weird how that is how. But then we love new things.
And I never thought I would I would enjoy these kinds of things in living in holiness. I just.
Yeah. So what is your journey with vanity and just looks and appearance? Um, so, you know, I was, I was in the entertainment industry modeling.
I was constantly judged, constantly compared. I was all about my looks.
It's all I thought. It's all I knew.
It's, it's, it's, it's, I mean, 12 years old, I'm wearing 10 pounds of makeup in school. It was crazy.
But the thing is, is that, and that, and I want, I want to say this because I want you guys to understand something because we do get a lot of comments of being like, why does she have some, why are you wearing makeup? And why are you wearing this? And I see people bashing each other on it on social media. Let me tell you something.
I wore so much makeup as a kid because I didn't like myself. So I thought, okay, let's put on more makeup.
Let's maybe if I do my hair blonder, maybe if I wear a short, shorter skirt, that will make me feel loved. That will make me feel more beautiful.
And I never felt good. And so when I, when you guys, I would just encourage you guys, be careful what you're saying online because people don't feel good in there and they don't feel pretty.
And so they feel like they have to dress a certain way. They feel like they have to wear so much makeup.
You know, you see people getting surgeries and all this stuff. It's not because they're bad or because they're, they're, you know, vain and obsessed with how they look.
That's what I mean. It's not, it has a lot of the times they're so broken inside.
They keep doing things and doing things to try to make themselves feel good. And they're just really broken inside.
I know that was the case. I'm telling you right now, I never saw myself.
I had legitimate imposter syndrome. You give me a compliment.
I'm looking at you like, what are you talking about? No, I'm not pretty. No, I'm not nice.
No, I'm not good. I never, I never had self-worth.
I really didn't. And so that was the beauty of finding Jesus.
And I was telling you the other night, he really did something in my heart where, listen, sometimes, yes, I actually do. I do still deal with insecurities.
I do. It's something that I'm still working through.
I still, you know, I don't know. I, you know, me, like I still go through things with insecurities, but I don't make it my life anymore.
I don't. He literally did a work in my heart.
I just don't care. But it is I have to check myself every day.
I do. I have seen the most massive transformation with you.
like truthfully when I first I first met you, I remember, like, if you, we would always joke that you had hair dismembered, like, your hair is your life. And granted, like, I understand because it's the best hair I've ever seen.
But, like, if you felt like you had a bad hair day. I wouldn't leave.
It could genuinely ruin your entire day. Yeah, I know.
It could send you into, if you didn't like your hair, like on an episode, it could send you, like you were gone, like no longer listening to whatever you're saying, but it's all you could see. I know.
And you would also, remember you said something about like fixating, like you would, and it was all you would see? Yeah. Oh, do you want to say it? No, no, yeah.
Yeah, no, and I remember, and you would also, like, have this thing, and it was your OCD that would flare up too, is that you would see something on your face or something that, like, nobody else would see, and then you would hyper-focus on it, and you would make it this big, big thing. And God has worked so much in you.
It is the most, like, it's beautiful to see God working in your own life, And then it's like almost even more evidence to see it in somebody else's life. Yeah.
Because now I see that you can notice things that maybe you don't love or you're not happy with and you're able to just let it go. And that's what that's what combating vanity is.
It doesn't mean that you don't care at all about what you look like, but you don't let it get in the way of the mission that God has you on. No.
And I realize what really makes me feel good. And it's your inner heart.
It's your inner soul. It's doing things to glorify him.
It's doing things for others. And I know I said that in the last episode.
But that's truly beauty. I mean I think it's a beautiful thing to want to feel good.
I love to feel good. We love to do things to upkeep and we're women.
And honestly, I can you blame us women? I mean, what society has done, think about women, we were since we're kids, we're trained to look good to get compliments. And that's the enemy feeds off that where we go to the mall mall and we see Victoria's Secret models and makeup and and I mean it's the biggest industry in the world yeah um we're taught from such a young age to hate ourselves that's right to benefit like big companies that's right and then for men look at what what do men have to do they have to have high paying jobs.
They have to be super successful.

Do you know what I mean? So that's a stress for them. And then for us is we have to look good and be, and then, and then we date men and then they, and then we're living in LA and God forbid, you know, whatever they go for someone younger.
I mean, it's a whole, it's the enemy. That's where he attacks us.
It's truly, I think about the, you know how the enemy, Satan has already always had the same schemes. It's always lust of the eyes, lust of the flesh, and the pride of life.
Lust of the eyes is a major thing. What's appealing to the eye, what looks good, and that's how he gets us through temptation.
And then also the pride of life. And like, what is, what can I acquire? What can I what can I gain what can I all of these things and it's like for women a lot of the time we're so focused on our looks and for men they're so focused on their accolades and the things that they can acquire and the money that they can make and so we and they can both coincide and mix up as well and we can take from that and they can take from this but it just like, and it's not that you completely have to get rid of all of these things.
I really truly believe like God literally used Esther and her beauty in the Bible. He strategically placed her in a position from using her beauty, utilizing that beauty to save his people.
And he did that from her beauty.

I would argue, and I believe in my heart that God uses beauty. I know he does.
I know that I will never forget back in the day I was at Mosaic and I, it was very early on in my journey. And I heard a pastor say, like, use your spiritual gifts, whatever it may be, teaching, cooking, cleaning, whatever it is, use it in the name of the Lord, our God.
And he said, if your gift is singing, sing your heart out. If your gift is writing, write your heart out.
If you're beautiful and people will look at you for just a second longer, use that for the gospel and for the sake of Jesus. And so these are all, I don't think the Bible doesn't tell us that we have to be ugly.
The Bible just tells us what to prioritize. And that's our relationship with Jesus.
That's right. That's right.
And if, and like you said, you can feel good, but you don't prioritize, you don't make that your life. You don't idolize it.
I idolized it. And you guys have to be easy on people because again, you're looking at people and you say, God, she's so vain.
Look at all she's doing. Look at all the makeup she's wearing.
No, it's because they don't feel well. Be careful what you're commenting on, on people's pictures.
Be careful what you're saying behind people's back. God can hear that by the way.
And that's a sin. You don't do that.
You don't gossip and make fun of people. People are going through a lot.
They're hurting. You have to understand that.
I grew up so hurt. I grew up just broken.
It went back to when I was a little girl. Like people grow up in really broken homes and they don't feel good.
They grow up from little girls to little boys to adults and they carry the trauma when they're older. And then they feel like they to do this and this to look good they have to work really good jobs they have to drive nice cars when really they're empty inside imagine that yeah so think about that next time you're you're sitting there judging someone or gossiping behind their back we need to really have compassion for these people and yourself it's so true Have some compassion for yourself.
It's okay. It's okay.
I just, I, the, the one thing that I just really, I, I really change about myself is anytime I catch myself, both of us actually, I've noticed this within the both of us. We're like, Oh God, no, no, never mind.
Jesus loves me. Everything's good.
Like you start saying that out loud, start speaking really good about yourself. It changes.
It changes everything. Negativity just, it brings you down.
You'll start looking in the mirror and you'll start seeing someone different. I would look like, you know how you were telling me how you would look in the mirror and you know that's not what you would see.
I couldn't have related that to that more. When I would look into the mirror, I was like, who is that? Oh, oh, sometimes I even still will have a perception.
If I'm not feeling good, if I'm something's not right within my heart, I'll look at myself and I'll be like, who? I hate that. What I, I hate what I see.
I hate that. And then I'll sometimes, it's the weirdest thing.
I'll take a photo of, I've done this so many times where I'll take a photo of myself, just like a quick selfie during a time that I absolutely hate what I look like. And I'm so, I'm like having a mental breakdown of being like, this is ugly.
Who is this? And then I'll go back weeks later and I'll be like, I look so cute. I know.
I look fine. I know.
What did I see? It's the weirdest thing. I know.
It is so insane. I know.
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Just the way that he's opened my eyes. My struggle with vanity isn't so much that I'm like so obsessed with the way that I look.
It's more so the provocativeness and the look in the eyes and just the way in which I presented myself that he has torn down. And it makes me so uncomfortable to even think about somebody looking at me like that.
And I really mean it. And I know it's so lame, but like, I really think about my husband and I'm like, he's the only one from the bottom of my heart that I ever want to look at me like that.
Until then I belong to Jesus and my body belongs to Jesus. And I don't want anyone looking at me like that.
That's so beautiful. Vanity too can come from working.
And we have to touch on that because it's, it's, it's a real thing and work and trying to be successful. I get it.
It's all I could think about even a year and a half ago. All my focus was how can I get to that? How can I make it? What can I do? What can I do? And you literally, if all you do is focus on work, you are going to be, you think, I don't even know if lost is the word.
You are going to be done for if all you're worried about is work. That is not all there is to life.
I know that we need to make a living. I know how important work is, but you cannot make it your sole focus.
I don't care if you have to work at 8 a.m. You get up at 5 a.m.
and make time for Jesus. You have to.
You have to. You have to.
Are you going to be walking aimlessly through life, confused, broken, and just... You're going to experience burnout.
It's not sustainable. Everything is fleeting.
Every single thing in this life is fleeting. The root of many evils is money.
That doesn't mean that money is inherently evil. It means that the things that the desire and the love for money will produce are evil.
And so when you put everything that you have into money and making a living, you will be so, we talk about vanity of all vanities, emptiness, emptiness, that's what, vanity is emptiness. Focusing so much on money and making a living is so empty.
You will never be happy. That's why some of the richest people in the world, like we say it all the time, are the most miserable.
And accumulating all of these things, I heard it said before that it's like when you're in high school,

you're stressed out because you just can't wait to graduate. And then when you graduate and you're in college, you just can't wait to get through college because you can't wait to graduate.
And then when you're done with college, you're so stressed out because you need a job. And then when you have that job, you're stressed out because you need a promotion.
Do you understand the toxic cycle that happens with anything in life? That's why putting your identity in anything other than Jesus is absolutely, it's a bottomless pit. It is sand instead of a solid ground to place your identity in.
We need a rock to put our identity in and to put value in and to put all of what we have, all of our love, all of our focus must go in Jesus. It's the only thing that can't be taken away from us.
Our career will be too. Ken, and most likely if you make an idol of it, God forbid, will be taken away because either God will do it or the devil will do it because the devil will know that it'll destroy you.
God will probably do it because he loves you and he wants to strip you of all of that. Put your identity and your looks.
We're all going to get old one day. No, don't let yourself go.
Yes, work out, take care of yourself. God, I know, I literally used to say it all the time.
I would be like, I'm getting cute for Jesus on a Sunday. Like, and I know that's like a little silly, but it's true.
God wants us to show up. It literally says in the Bible that when you're fasting, wash your face and get yourself and put yourself together because that matters to God.
Can I please read just out of Genesis chapter two really quick? It's very obvious that God is a creative God and he loves his creation. And he didn't just build, he didn't just create one type of tree.
He created many different types of trees, not just one flower, so many different types of flowers. He literally has planted all these beautiful plants and trees and, and all of these things throughout the earth so that we can look at, you look at the sunset.
God loves beauty. He wouldn't have made things as beautiful as he did if he didn't care about it.
Then the Lord God planted a garden in Eden in the East. And there he placed the man he had made.
The Lord God made all sorts of trees grow up from the ground, trees that were beautiful and that produced delicious fruit.

So before he even utilized and focused on what the tree would be used for,

he focused on the aesthetic.

This is his temple.

This is the place in which the Holy Spirit dwells.

What we put in it is very important.

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Look at people who've made it to the top and what do they do when they make it to the top? They're not happy. They fall.
They go to addiction. They're still not fulfilled.
That's what I mean. The success, it means nothing.
It means nothing. And that's why we're living in a world where everyone's depressed.
Everyone's broken. No one's happy.
Everyone's getting divorced. It's because we're all looking for the next best thing.
We're living in such a corrupt, dysfunctional world. And it's sad because if you only knew what is true happiness, we would live in such a fruitful world.
It means nothing if you don't have Jesus. Nothing means anything if you don't have Jesus.
Yeah. We'll give you guys a little bit of an inside look to our life in LA.
LA is an accumulation of basically the most beautiful people in every city of America. The most beautiful people who are obviously all a little bit narcissistic because they think they're stars.
Everybody comes out to LA. They're the best of their town.
So it's just, that's why everybody here is so beautiful because the best of the best come here. And you look around and this place is, like we've said, modern day Babylon, where it's absolutely empty, vapid.
You go out and you meet people. And I don't mean this as an insult whatsoever, but most of these people obviously aren't believers most of these people are not god's focused or or christ conscious like they only care about this and this and this and the things that they can get and social climbing and doing all of these things and they are so miserable when aria and i go out sometimes which is like barely ever exhausted when we go out we're looking at people like we're just trying to connect.
Ari and I can, Ari and I look very intense probably to other people because we look at people and we're, I'm looking for what's in there and we're trying to connect on a soul level. And it takes people back all the time because they're like, what is this? Like I, nobody has these conversations.
Nobody cares. Everyone's talking about what they do for work and how many followers they have.
And Ari and I are like, so, like, what do you think about God? Like, what is your concept of God? And it's so alarming to people because they care. They're prioritizing the wrong things.
I know. They're broken.
And the first thing that they ask you when we go out, so what do you do? They're just, it's, we're living in a really lost city. It's a lost world right now.
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I heard somebody say something along the lines of like when men meet each other, the second that they meet, the first thing they do within the five seconds is they size each other up to say, would I be able to take this guy in a fight? So men have this comparison. They all have their Rolexes and their cars and all these things, and they just want to be better than the next dude.
I have the bigger house. I have the hotter wife.
I have like blah, blah, blah, whatever. And so they're always comparing each other to each other, always competing.
Women are pitted against one another from the beginning of time. That's why you and I are so unbelievably passionate about when we meet women, we embrace them and we're like, we are not against each other.
We are together. And that's why beautiful women don't intimidate us because we know that their beauty doesn't take away from ours.
And there's this proverb that talks about 2 Corinthians 10, 12 says, but they're measuring themselves by themselves and comparing themselves among themselves, but are not wise. So it says that you're comparing yourself to others is useless and can lead to feelings of low self-esteem and loneliness.
Oh, yeah. What we all need to do, honestly, the best thing I did, the secret to it all, stop thinking so much about yourself.
Preach. Stop thinking so much about yourself.
It's, of course, we're going to be so worried. I was so worried and fixated because I'm looking at myself.
No one cares. Yeah.
The truth of it is, is no one really cares. Everyone is in their own head.
They're not judging you. They're judging themselves.
It's so true. That's such a good point.
We don't have to be so, stop being so self-focused on yourself. I love the scripture in first Corinthians 10 verse 24.
No one should seek their own good, but the good of others. When you stop worrying so much about yourself and take the focus off and focus on others, watch how good you'll feel.
It's freedom. Yeah.
And also, what are you guys doing with your money? The people that are working really hard and you're really successful, what are you doing with all your money? Make sure you're doing something good with it. You want to feel good and take the vanity off.
Start doing something good with your money, meaning help other people. Be generous.
Help your family that are in need. You know, do something good with the money and the hard work that you are doing.
That's such a great point. I just feel like I had a revelation that the number, if you're struggling with vanity, the number one way is to sacrificially put yourself out there for other people, force yourself to take the focus.
A life of self forgetfulness is a life of absolute freedom. And so if you're struggling with vanity, one, pray about it, bring it to God, He will handle it.
Be in your word. Do all the things that you know you need to do to develop intimacy with God.
That will combat so much of it. But practical steps that you can take is actively being like, yes, I could focus on myself, but let me go and do things for other people.
And you'll naturally stop thinking about yourself so much. Yeah.
It is such freedom. Do you have any other tips that people could do for vanity?

Do you know what I think it is with me and you that helps so much?

What?

One, purity makes the biggest difference.

If you, I mean, as women and as men, if you're not focused on being attractive,

most of the time we're attractive for two reasons.

We want to be attractive to compete with other women.

We want to be attractive so men find us attractive. That's the only reason why you are like ever vain.
That's the only reason why you show up in a room like that is because you want other women to think you're beautiful and other men to desire you. Once we let that part of us die and we entered into a season of total singleness, and when I say singleness, you guys, I mean like personally, I have actively, honestly had to even limit my male friendships because the truth is even male friendships can feed a part of you that wants male attention.
God has taken me through a season where he's completely left me dry of any sort of validation or attention from men. and it's stripped me of my vanity.
I don't care about the way that I look because I'm not proving myself to men. And so I think that that's a really great thing that we can all try to do is enter into a season of being like, I'm going to actively not talk to any guys.
I'm going to actively not let men feed that let men feed that part of me. And it's changed my life.
Can I be honest? It's, it's, I think I'm so glad you said that because when we, that's when we were, that's when the vanity just completely was stripped because we were stripped because all we knew was the lot are lost because vanity and lust go hand in hand what's vanity trying to be sexy trying to please other trying to dress a certain way trying to do things to make people want you right as soon as that's stripped away you're left with a pure heart and you don't need that anymore what you're left is the the things that actually matter. Kindness, gentleness, gentleness, compassion, wisdom, intelligence, people that are in school and middle school and high school, please, for the love of God, I was so fixated on the way I looked because I was just, it was crazy.
I couldn't even focus in school. Do you understand? Please pay attention.
Learn. If I could do one thing different it would have been that I listened in school and I learned.
Please don't worry about the boys and trying to compare yourselves and trying to look good for this one in school. Pay attention.
It's going to pay off in the long run. Truly.
And also, if you are in middle school or high school, I want you to know that these years are so important. They're so informative.
And everything that feels like such a massive deal in your life right now in five years is not going to matter. The people around you, you're not even going to remember their names.
So you're sitting there robbing yourself of the ability to learn and to gain and to be fulfilled in all of these different ways in school and by your parents. But you're robbing yourself of the ability because you're focused on people and things that inevitably won't matter in the future.
It's not going to matter. And just like Ari, I would go back and I would just stay in school I was so busy with boys I was so busy focused on the wrong things I don't even know where Oregon is I don't know where Oregon is on the map I miss that class show me the 50 I could I show me a map of the United States and I don't know where the states are.
That is, I swear on my mind. I don't know where it is either.
Portland? That's a city. I thought there were elephants in the Bahamas.
There's not? No, but please, guys, I'm not kidding. I have such a desire to just, like, hold you guys' hand that are young people because I was so worried about what this one thought of me and what this one because I didn't feel good inside.
And if I don't even know these people anymore, it doesn't matter. The boys don't matter.
I'm sorry to tell you, you're probably not going to marry the guy from middle school. You might if you live in Weymouth, Massachusetts.
You might. You might.
And so I'm not ruling it out. But for the most part, these things won't matter.
And what matters is your heart and your integrity and your character and becoming as much like Jesus as humanly possible. And who better to learn from and take take a page out of their book is our Jesus.
The only one who came, like Ari has said so many times, could have come as a king, came as a servant, so unbelievably humble. God opposes the proud and he gives grace to the humble.
And so humble yourself down, not to make yourself small, not to never put a care into your looks again, but to simply make God the biggest part of your life, the most priority, that make yourself so Christ conscious that your eyes are just fixated on him

and we're focused on him all day.

And then you'll realize, whoa, I haven't even thought about myself.

But you can still get ready in the morning.

And when you're with a group and you're feeling like you're being judged

or you're comparing yourself or you're having these low moments,

just look up and say, no, you love me.

It's all good.

You love me.

I know who I am.

I am lovable.

I am good.

I am your daughter.

I am your son.

I don't know. look up and say no you love me it's all good you love me I know who I am I'm I am lovable I am good I am your daughter I am your son I swear I I oh I started doing that speaking it out loud and it and it automatically goes away and I feel better because it's it's you know what can I'll just say one more thing when I lost the people that were really close to me and I had to, I watched them in the casket and I saw their body.
And I just, things change when you, when somebody passes away and you can see them on the other side. And you're like, wow, you see this person and they're gone.
And everything they had, the cars, all the clothes they had, everything they were trying to do, it's gone. Yeah.
And you look and it's just all the people that loved them. So that's what matters.
It's them and your people. Who are you there for? How much did you love? That's all that matters.
It's so true. Yeah.
So Ari and I also wanted to do an updated modesty for the love of all things holy. Please don't watch our other modesty video.
It was very early on. We were responding to the outpouring of criticism that we were receiving.
You guys were so right. You were so right.
What did we say? I don't remember. Nothing.
We were just like kind of being like, you know, like, yeah, honor God with your body. We were just like making excuses.
And we were very clear. We didn't know what I was saying.
We were very clear. Sorry, I'll cut that out.
No, no. We were very clearly making excuses.
God was working, but we were resistant. And that's the truth.
Sometimes when God is sanctifying you, there's going to be a resistance to it at first. Because it's all you know.
And literally, it's the spirit and the flesh that are at war with themselves. And that's why you also have to give people grace, because even if you want to do the right thing, sometimes your flesh is like fighting against it.
And I think we were kind of fighting against it. We were still making excuses.
We were still justifying. And we want to stand here today to let you guys know that modesty is literally one of the most important things to us in our faith journey.
It is so incredibly important to me showing my body Jenny for coming from someone who used to wear some of the most insane outfits. Showing my body genuinely makes me so uncomfortable.
I don't want anyone seeing that. I don't want anybody knowing that like I don't want anybody thinking thoughts of me.
I don't want anybody. I don't want to make truly my brother stumble.
Like, I don't want to put myself in a position that makes somebody's pure heart start having these. I hate the idea of it.
And so I have taken it so seriously that everything I post, everything, and I've made mistakes. And even in feeling this way and having these convictions, things have still fell through the cracks.
and I've made mistakes and even in feeling this way and having these convictions things have still fell through the cracks and I've felt extremely guilty and and felt bad about it but like I am fully in support of total modesty and yes that might look different for for everybody but I no longer walk the line of immodesty and it's not okay to me and it really, and so if you ever see me wearing something or posting something, it's the devil. And I need an exorcism.
Is there anything you still struggle with, with modesty? Yeah, I mean, there are some times where maybe I'll try something on in the store and I'll be like, I love the way this looks. And I'll have a moment of being like, I wish I could wear this.

Sometimes, rarely,

because that's not my heart posture anymore.

Because now I'm like, I don't want to wear that

because I don't want anybody to see me in that.

But there are some times, of course,

where I'm like,

I have a moment where my flesh is like,

I love the way that this dress looks.

I love this two-piece friggin' top and skirt. And it's I don't care I'm not gonna dress like that yeah how do you feel about modesty where are you at with it I think I had a lot of pride when we first started because I always loved fashion and I always thought that I looked pretty good and so I had a little bit of an attitude.
I'm not going to lie. I was

like, I don't know what you guys are talking about. I'm wearing my Reformation dresses and

if it has a slit in it and you guys don't like it, I don't know what to tell you. And so I

really struggled with it. I was like, I actually feel bad for Christians that have to deal with

these people because they're so annoying because I am am fashionable and I'm cool. And I am classy.
But no, so it's been definitely a journey with me because sometimes I have taken a video and they're like, wait, what are you wearing? And I'm like, wait, what? So it's like I'm learning. And I think I'm still learning with the bathing suits, honestly.

That's me being completely honest.

Oh, I haven't even.

No, we haven't even talked.

What are we wearing this summer?

I'm not going to the beach.

And, yeah.

I'm wearing a freaking diaper.

I'm not dealing with this.

I was Googling some modest bikinis, and they're pretty.

I don't know how my body's going to look in those. So I do struggle with them.
Yeah, that's a struggle for me. And then even some things like I took a video.
I think we went to a premiere and they had told me to look over your shoulder. And so I looked over my shoulder and I got mauled.
I mean, they were saying I'm showing off my butt and all this stuff and I really wasn't I was just looking over my shoulder and so that's been that was that was a lot and so I'm trying to navigate it and um just yeah it's it's it's it's been a journey it's's a journey. It's a journey.

But for me, like how I used to dress, I would dress really classy, but there would always have to be a little bit of sexy in it.

And we did talk about this in one of the modesty episodes.

We have different chest sizes, and so it's hard for me.

We absolutely have different chests. You know what I'm saying? Yep.
Everybody knows. I can wear whatever.
Listen, I can wear literally any shirt that I want. And I'm modest.
You better wear a trash bag as a shirt. I put it on and I look like it's just crazy.
So it's hard for me to find clothes. Like it's that why you see me.
I get turtlenecks on all the time. But it's beautiful.
I love, there's nothing more beautiful than feeling conservative and just beautiful. Do you understand how good I feel? Don't tell me that God's not real.
Don't tell me. If you would have told me Psalm 37, delight in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart.
I delight in the Lord. I love him so much.
He is my world. I'm in love with him and he is my main focus and the only thing that I delight in.
And he has given me the desires of my heart. I don't want anybody looking at my body I love wearing things that don't show off my body I don't feel my mom calls me a nun my mom is like why are you dressing like that it's beautiful though and and I when I look at a woman who's dressed so classy they're they just look so it's it's a whole other level of beauty

to me a hundred percent and I look at them and I'm like wow I wonder if she's smart I wonder if she's kind I wonder what's in here you know what I mean yeah it just leaves so much more room to focus on the things that actually matter and you attract different people too you attract better people yeah i had one ex-convict in my DMs since I cleaned my act up. But I love the ex-convicts though.
No shade. I love you.
She got a lot of letters from prison mates. I'm just kidding.
But I wish. I want to say give people grace.
They're learning. They're growing.
And some people simply don't know. And we were two of them, two of those girls that didn't know.
If you see me, though, acting up, call me out. I will be anxious, but I tell me.
I might have a little bit of an attitude. I will because I love fashion.
And so don't try to tell me what to wear. I will submit.
I will submit. What do we do when when when somebody says something about our pictures? You freak out.
I'm like, no, I get an attitude. You're so good about it.
Because I love fashion. I always have been a fashion girl.
I'm like, what? I know. You know? I don't know.
No, it's hard. It's hard, and we're all working it out.
We work out our salvation. We work out our modesty.
We work everything out. And it's hard sometimes when we're in the position that we're in and it's like, did God say, is God telling me this? Am I listening to all the other voices? But I do think that it is very helpful to have, you know, some people to help us keep us on track.

And that's kind of what you sign up for when you want to go out and lead and be in public. So it's just, yeah, you're like, I'm gonna have an attitude.
I just, I just don't want you guys to feel girls. I don't want you to feel like you have to show your chest, like you have to wear a small dress, like you have to dress a certain way and be sexy for a man to look at you.
Because I promise you, you're only going to attract the wrong kinds of men. That's absolutely right.
If you know, so I really I want you guys to listen to us. And modesty is so important and it really will change your life.
It will change the people in your life.

And if you are single and you're looking for someone dressing appropriately, the photos, the photos, the photos, the photos, please.

I can't believe it's okay.

I give myself so much grace for the photos I used to post.

I used to be into social media and be an influencer.

I was looking at my archive photos last week and I was like, man, have I changed. But you know, those things are out there forever.
I want you guys to think about every single photo you put out there. Really, your Instagram, unfortunately, now it's like our resume.
So be careful what you post and And just, yeah. And even even for men what do you think for men for modesty do you have anything for men guys please come on the men need to hear yeah no um modesty for you guys it's a heart posture as well i don't think you guys are wearing skanky bikinis, but, you know, gym pics, shirt pics.

It's just the intention behind what you're doing.

Why are you doing it?

Why?

Who do you want to see this?

And what do you want?

What reaction are you trying to elicit from them?

It all matters and it all starts in the heart.

And, like, just be very honest with yourself.

And that's between you and God.

So just ask yourself, why am I posting this?

Why am I posting a thirst trap?

What's the point? You know what I mean? There's much more valuable things that you could be putting out into the world. Thank you.
Yeah, I think you said it good. I love you guys so much.
And thank you for joining us in another heartfelt, bleed it out conversation. Thank you for the grace you've given us.
Just thank you for everything you've done for us. We love you guys more than anything in the world.
And we're so happy to be on this journey with you truly.

Thank you guys so much. Thank you for all the grace.
We love you. Thank you for growing with us.

We love you. May the Lord bless you and keep you.
May he make his face shine upon you and be

gracious to you. May he turn his face towards you and give you peace.
Love you. Love you.

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