I think in Isiah it talks warns about markings of the skin,ear rings, jewelry and those things, I completely think it is wrong today, I used to not really care if it was right or wrong, I would demand someone NOT get a tattoo at all, it simply seems totally against us being created in the image of God....But if you have crawled and spiraled downwards as I have remember Tattoos are a permanent sin for us to bare till the end ,we will always be reminded of this past and people will judge us and look down on us,it will be exactly as those permanent sins in our heart, mind,soul except the latter are hidden to the world..By confession and true repentance our Lord forgives us of all these sins Thru his sacrifice on the Cross..But we have to be 100 % repentant and there is no middle of the road here, you either fully repent or not.....Miraculously God allows us to use those grave sins that we have committed, as a weapon against the evil one, but not too many people know this..He forgives us and allows us to help others dealing with that same sin(Tattoos,drugs,alcohol,fornication,pornography,anger,resentment,pride,ego,selfishness,theft,cussing,all those things that are unpleasing to GOD become our greatest asset in helping to bring people hope and to the True Church. in the Gospel ,the 10 Gentile lepers were confronted by Christ , the Lepers asked Master have Mercy on us, and they were instructed to go to the Priests of the Law and show them that they were no longer Lepers, even though they still had lepercy ,they didnt hesitated to question Jesus at that time ,they had faith.
on the way to the Priests they were cured of Lepercy, 9 continued this path , and only one turned back and went to find this man they called Jesus, For he knew at that instance that this was the SON of GOD.Jesus sorrowed for this because out of 9 , only 1 came back.......and today as our sins are forgiven we continue our path in the world some say verbally that they are thankful and some just believe they are thankful.. but how many run back and Bow down to the triune GOD as MASTER..................the Crux of the story is if Im truely 100% repentant, God Promises to forgive me,But we also find in the gospel that Faith without Works is Dead, and works can mean a 100 things but here works clearly means TO HELP SOMEONE struggling as you once did.. because of those past mistakes I had nowhere to go and at that instance(a Broken Heart, not a girl) I knew Jesus was the Son of GOD and I ran back to him and he led me to the OCA, and as that Lepercy gentile , I too have been cured of my outer skin defects, but visibly they can still be seen.. the ones that are still cold in the Heart(not completely Broken) look down at me as a Lepercy infested Gentile and those that have been broken and know the Triune God as Master embrace me with a small smile, for they somehow know I came back to the TRUTH as that 1 gentile came back running to Christ..and that is the miracle ive been given, to make that identification with those hopeless and lost, with hopes of bringing them some hope and showing them that God is all mercyfull and powerfull, remember Faith without Works is DEAD .........cc
