The Dangers of Not Thinking Highly Enough of Oneself

When you read this article you think, "Really?" I mean, I don't know a great deal about things, but missing for 9 years and claiming that you had no idea how to contact your parents and let them know? That just sounds a little off to me. Then, you find out that she has three children, but not from the one who abducted her. Nope. Two are from her current husband, whom she married in Mexico, and the eldest is from a man she dated. So, she could date and marry and work in Mexico, but couldn't find a way to let her family know she was alive, unharmed and get home...until now that she's been identified and could possibly have her husband and three children come with her to America legally.

So, I am thinking that she may have some serious mental trauma from the ordeal. I don't know...at first, when I saw this article, I was like, "Wow." And then as I read it, I was like, "What?" And now, I'm just at a loss.

The most important thing to take from this, though, is that we must teach our youth to be very, very careful when it comes to dating and romance. One of the main ways someone can nab a girl for sex trafficking is by her demeanor. If she has her eyes downcast and appears shy, he swoops in and says all the right things, takes her away, and sells her. Then she is truly trapped in that life...unless rescue comes.

We need to teach our daughters their worth and value and beauty and give them the self-confidence they need so they won't be taken in by the darkness that preys violently upon them. This young lady wasn't sold into sex trafficking, but something definitely unplugged, understandably, due to her abduction. I will include the article link at the end of this OP.

I am not here to truly debate her reasons, though I did start out thinking that I wanted to openly discuss this. However, I can already see the responses of some being very defensive in regards to protecting this woman, which I totally see, so instead, let's discuss the possible things that we can do to teach our daughters and older women to value themselves highly enough to not be taken in by those that would do them harm.

Connie McCallister, Wisconsin Woman Abducted At 16, Found Living In Mexico With 3 Children

You have no idea how much I applaud you for this thread and I appreciate it so much. I think this really is a weight on the Christians as well— not so much something that we should be doing as opposed to something we should be coming to terms with and understanding the implications involved.

I say this because there is a value that these young girls have on them. There is a mark that we can place on their heads as substance for what their value is actually estimated at; and it's the blood of our creator pouring out at the cross as a demonstration of His love for us. There is not one person that is exempt from this, and it should be something that men should recognize as well.

We are bought at a price. It's easy to take that and turn it into a reason as to why we should feel guilty about our actions, but it's really something to show how much we are actually worth. The price was Jesus. The price was our God submitting Himself to us as a demonstration of what our real value is. If you want to see your value, just look at the cross. Look at your creator, hanging there and giving Himself for you. That's your value. That the very thing that created you loved you so dearly that he gave himself up so that He might win your heart.

When we just sell ourselves off, it's not that we're disgracing ourselves. We are disgracing who we are because of what He has done for us. We were bought for something incomparable. The blood of the living God, and it's like taking that and exchanging it for a dirty rag. Something that is worth more than all the money in the world, more than all the space stations we will ever build, ever car and every mansion. That's our value. We're so quick to just throw ourselves off as rags.

I support this thread entirely. It is not only dangerous, it is a lie to think of your self-worth any less than the blood of Jesus. That was the price that God placed on you. That was the value that God saw you as and wanted you for Himself as. Teach your daughters this, and teach your sons to look at girls in this way, and to value even themselves in this regard.