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Originally Posted by Coram Deo  Jbaldwin,
Over the years, I have seen the reverse... Where woman or man are only concerned for the heart attitude and it never ever affects the outward person... I Agree both are important and both are to be held in balance but I always see the one end and not much the other end or balanced. Many times are standards will not fall in line... Both must be held up diligently
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Originally Posted by Grymir Corem Deo - Loved the swimwear. It's nice to see that spandex is making a comeback. (Ah, The days when I was in a hair band!)
To all. We all know what modesty is. Nobody can deny that the Bible calls for it. Anybody who tries to say it's ok for women to dress like sluts is wrong. plain wrong. Just go to the mall and look around. Teens dress very immodest. Parent's that give it their blessing and buy the clothes for them are corrupting their children. Even on Nickelodeon Channel the kids are dressed like whores.
Anybody who says women can wear whatever they want to, well, we can see through the lines. Very obviously too! | To be honest, I didn't get that from anyone on this thread. What I have seen is a "standards" vs. "heart attitude" discussion.
As it has already been said many times, modest dress is important (from both men and women), but heart attitude is just as important, and I would say THE most important. If our hearts are in the right place, our standards will fall in line. To be honest, I lived as a legalistic pharisee for many years. Frankly, my dress today is not a whole lot different than it was back then. I still carefully cover up. The difference? I don't worry about my dress, I worry about my attitude before the Lord. I make my decisions about clothing based on my love for the Lord and what pleases Him. Oddly enough, I end up making about the same choices as I did when I only cared what the rules were. | |
What I am saying is that if people are genuinely concerned about their hearts before the Lord, and they have His Spirit living in them, they WILL do what is right.
The longer I walk with the Lord, the more I realize that there are many "tares" in the church. Our job is not to flush them out, but to walk before the Lord as holy and pray for them.
One of the most painful (and also freeing) areas of sanctification in my life has been in the area of judging others and what they do. It is so easy to point fingers, to criticize the others around us, to try to "sanctify" our neighbors, to look at the moat in our brother's eye and all the while fail to see the beam in our own. The fact is, we have to look at our own relationship before the Lord and compare OUR lives to His. If we do that, we see our wretched sinfulness, and the sins of others somehow seem minor in comparision to our own.