The World Is Crucified Unto Me - Bible Witness Media Ministry

Christian and Worldlinessmy testimony as a Christian?” You may besurprised to discover there are many clothesin your wardrobe that are not appropriate.Do not Dress andBehave like a HarlotThe opposite of shamefacedness and sobrietyin dressing is described in Proverbs 7:10-13,“And, behold, there met him a woman withthe attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart. (Sheis loud and stubborn; her feet abide not inher house: now is she without, now in thestreets, and lieth in wait at every corner.) Soshe caught him, and kissed him, and with animpudent face said unto him . . .”This woman is impudent, which means“shameless”. She is everything the modestwoman is not. She is loud and stubborn.Towards men, she is anything but bashful. Herattire draws men’s attention and advertisesthat she is a loose woman and available forthem to look at and be tempted. She appearsthoroughly carnal.A woman whose attire exposes her flesh, ordraws attention to the contour of her bodyis not modest or shamefaced. Her attire isthat of an harlot, not of a woman professinggodliness.Modern dressing often fits the biblicaldescription of “a harlot’s dress”. Most of today’sfashion designers care only to feed the lust ofcarnal men and women. They do not careabout what God classifies as modest.May we appear like godly people and not likecarnal men and harlots. It is incongruous forwomen, who profess to know God, to dressimmodestly. It is a shame when seductivelydressed women (professing to be saved) divertmen’s minds to immoral imaginations duringworship service.“What becomes women professing godlinessare hemlines that cover the knees when seated,and necklines that are necklines indeed. Attirethat is full, rather than form fitting. Skirts anddresses instead of pants. Skirts with hemlinesbelow the knee, but with slits to mid-thigh,are anything but modest.”Do not OverdressIn 1 Timothy 2:9, 10, we read that womenshould adorn themselves modestly and “notwith broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costlyarray; but (which becometh women professinggodliness) with good works.”Christian women should not dress to draw theattention of men to themselves or to showoff their wealth. (Men should also avoid thistemptation.) We must lead a quiet and gentlelife.The outward appearance must never becomeour focus or chief end in life. We must notseek first how to be outwardly attractive, butinstead how to adorn ourselves with godliness.1 Samuel 16:7 drives home this point: “...Forthe LORD seeth not as man seeth; for manlooketh on the outward appearance, but theLORD looketh on the heart.” God is concernedwith the beauty of our hearts which will bereflected in proper outward appearance.“Whose adorning let it not be that outwardadorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing ofgold, or of putting on of apparel; but let it bethe hidden man of the heart, in that which isnot corruptible, even the ornament of a meekand quiet spirit, which is in the sight of Godof great price” (1 Peter 3:3-4). •20Bible Witness