Tattoos: Right - Wrong - Forgiven - N/A
Growing up, I’ve been called artistic, weird, artsy, etc…. I consider myself somewhat artistic. I can doodle. I’m pretty good with computer graphics. I can used colored and black pencils as well as charcoal. I was always intrigued by tattoos. The colors, style, imagery. I have 4 tattoos now. I got all four quite some time ago (several years). One of these tattoos is a dragon and now that image is beginning to bother me. I’ve been considering covering it up with some type of swirly design (tribal maybe) that has no reference or similarity to any animal/beast (mythical or not). Are tattoos wrong in the eyes of God. I haven’t read that passage in the Bible yet but I get the feeling they are. It might be the fact that my parents always told me they were wrong but I wonder if it was just not to their particular taste. Even if tattoos are wrong, is it bad to cover an image that you don’t think is “God-like”. If you were foolish enough to tattoo the word “Satan” on your arm and years later you found God. Would you be wrong if now, after receiving the Lord’s forgiveness, you chose to cover that satan tattoo with a flower or some other design. Something I’m pondering.
This morning I was driving and listening to the Steve Harvey Morning Show. A woman wrote a letter asking for advice about her marriage and how her husband left, moved on, but refuses to file for divorce and it is against her religion to get divorced. The advice they gave her was quite worring about your religion and worry about your relationship with God. They said something to the effect that religion serves as a barometer in our lives to help guide us and maintain our morals, but it does not establish our relationship with God. Often time people get caught up in the rights and wrongs of religion, and what we should and shouldn’t be doing. Ultimately we have to answer to nobody other than GOD. Let he who is without sin, cas the first stone. If you prayed about it and God hasn’t put it in your heart that it’s so awful, then do it. If you feel bad about it, don’t. Let you and God decide, not anybody else. I know that the enemy is very clever, and finds every and any way he can to entire and destroy our lives. However God is always with us. Pray about it and do what you feel God put in your heart. I hope this is helpful to you.