KneEmail - a devotional by Mike Benson associated with Forthright Magazine
Chased
WARMER MONTHS ARE here, and with the warm weather comes the challenge of modesty...
I'm not going to lecture or give you my "opinion." I don't want to set your standards for you, and tell you what you can and cannot wear. All I want to do is ask you to read God's Word and then answer one question:
"You shall not commit adultery"(Exo. 20:14).
"You shall not covet your neighbor's wife" (Exo. 20:17).
"Whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has committed adultery in his heart" (Matt. 5:28).
"Abstain from fleshly lusts that war against the soul" (1 Pet. 2:11).
"Flee youthful lusts" (2 Tim. 2:22).
"Posses your vessel in sanctification and honor, not in passionate lusts" (1 Thess. 4:4-5).
"Women should dress in modest apparel; dress that professes one's godliness" (1 Tim. 2:9-10).
"Let us resolve not to put a stumbling block or cause to fall in our brother's way" (Rom. 14:13).
Now then, the question: Does the way you dress cause the opposite sex to think you are "chaste," or does it cause them to think you want to be "chased?"
Honest self-evaluation, virtue, and an unrelenting desire to be pleasing to God is all that is needed, and modesty will take care of itself. (Steve Higginbotham)
KneEmail: "And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God" (Rom. 12:2).