Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Modesty: A Forgotten Virtue?

What’s so important about the way we dress?  After all, shouldn’t we keep up with fashion? Shouldn’t we look cool and not old-fashioned and weird?

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Let’s explore this question from God’s standpoint. 

 First of all, God is not opposed to our looking nice. It is perfectly okay to dress in a way that makes us attractive to others. But we must honestly ask ourselves why we want to be attractive to others. Is it to draw attention to ourselves, or is it to draw attention to Jesus?

 Many young women today--and older women, too--are wearing clothing that they would not wear in front of Jesus.  Necklines are plunging ever more deeply, and midriffs are showing ever more widely. 

 Let’s be honest. The main reason girls and young women are dressing indecently is to attract the opposite sex. What these girls fail to realize is that to dress in such a manner poses a great temptation to young men.  Is it loving to be a deliberate temptation to another person? I don’t think so.

 Listen to what the Bible says about the way we dress:

 I Peter 3:3-4:  “What matters is not your outer appearance . . . but your inner disposition. Cultivate inner beauty, the gentle, gracious kind that God delights in.” (The Message)

 I Corinthians 6:19-20: “Or didn’t you realize that your body is a sacred place, the place of the Holy Spirit? Don’t you see that you can’t live however you please, squandering what God paid such a high price for? The physical part of you is not some piece of property belonging to the spiritual part of you. God owns the whole works. So let people see God in and through your body.” (The Message)

 I Timothy 2:9:  “And I want women to be modest in their appearance. They should wear decent and appropriate clothing . . . . “ (NLT)

Proverbs 11:22: "A beautiful woman lacking discretion and modesty is like a fine gold ring in a pig’s snout.” (TLB)

 I Corinthians 10:31: “ . . . whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.” (NLT)

 Even the way you dress! :)
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