| ST. JOHN 8:11 |
| 2004 Church of God of Forrest City, Arkansas |
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| TESTIMONIES |
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| NO MORE "IMMODESTY"
I was raised in a home where my parents professed to be Christian people. My mother was always a very modest dressing woman. She never wore pants or low cut clothes. She didn’t wear sleeveless tops or sleeveless dresses. She raised us to be modest dressers, except for wearing pants. However, I can remember when we didn’t wear pants. I didn’t get a chance to go out to clubs when I lived in my parents’ home. When I went to college, I went to the club sometimes. Because I was not accustomed to going to the club, I didn’t know how people dressed for the club (especially females). I remember one time some friends and I went to the club. One of my friend’s boyfriend went with us. I was sitting in the club talking to him, and he began to talk about the way I was dressed. He told me I had on my church dress. I thought I looked good with my two-piece long skirt, and my long sleeve top buttoned to the neck. When he said that I knew I had to do something as far as changing my style of dress at the club. The devil let me know quickly that I was not wearing what should be worn to a club. Little by little, the devil was changing my dress all around. I wasn’t saved from my sins, so I really couldn’t see what was going on in my life. All I knew was that if I was going to be one of the gang, I was going to have to change my style of dress. While I was in college, I started making some of my clothes. Mini-skirts were big at that time. I can remember wearing a skirt so short that I could not look in the microscope in my biology class. I heard the young men sitting behind me say if I leaned over to look in the microscope that they were going to see something. Therefore, I decided not to look in it. I can remember going to my math class one day, and I was late getting there. All of the seats at the back of the room were taken. The class was a very large class. I had to sit at the front of the class on the front row. The math teacher was a very old black man. I went to the front row, and I took a seat. When I sat down, the teacher looked at me and some how his eyes got glued on my legs. He was talking when I sat down, and all of a sudden he stopped talking and just stared at my legs. Everyone in the room couldn’t help but notice he was looking at my legs. It seemed as if he looked a long time, but it probably wasn’t as long as it seemed. I was embarrassed by that incident. I wasn’t late for that class anymore, and I continued my immodest dress. I can remember one time I went to the Post Office. I was wearing my tight jeans, a curly wig, and some sunglasses. This elderly lady was going in the Post Office. She looked at my car then she looked at me. She looked at my car again, and she looked back at me. She had a look on her face as though she thought I was a hooker or something like that. She made me feel ashamed. I was a college student trying to get an education. The lusts of flesh, however, had me dressing (and even acting) like a whorish woman. You might think that you would never go this far. A person without the true Jesus Christ in his/her soul, cannot say how far he/she will or will not go. The Bible teaches that sin always gets worse and worse. (II Timothy 3:13, Galatians 5:9) Don’t be deceived. That’s just the way it is! Sin brings about shame. Now that I’m saved from my sins, I dress modest. I don’t have to try to get attention by dressing immodest. Dear reader, and young ladies in particular, there is a reason for immodest dress. I wanted attention – MALE ATTENTION, and I dressed in a lustful manner to get the type of attention I wanted and I thought I needed. I dressed the way sinful men wanted me to dress. Yes, many young women are “spiritual slaves” to men. They dress the way SINFUL men and the fashion industry wants them to dress – EXPOSED. I thank God that I am saved from my sins, and I don’t have to try to get attention by dressing immodest. All I want people to see when they look at me now is JESUS. A Sister in Christ Church of God of Forrest City, Arkansas |
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