When we become Christians, we are saying to the world that my life is to be for Christ and not for Satan. I am going to live and act differently than I did before I put Christ on in baptism.
How do you live for Christ as a Christian woman? Maybe you are a daughter, a wife, a mother, a mother-in-law or a grandmother? As Christian women, we can be more than one of the above at any given time. We must remember how we live and act lets others know if we want to live for Christ or for Satan! We are being watched by our families, friends, acquaintances, neighbors and even by others that we have never met. Let us think, act and live more like Christ.
Living for Christ as a teenage young lady is hard because one wants her classmates and especially the boys to like her. Sometimes we let wanting to be popular with our friends lead us down the wrong path of life. We dress or should I say undress, go places and do things that are not becoming of Christians. We should be a better influence on our friends instead of letting them lead us to be more like the world. Unfortunately, our dress can be revealing with low cut tops, spaghetti straps, exposed midriffs, short-shorts or miniskirts. At other times, we may wear pants that are so skintight that there is nothing left for boys and men to imagine. Unfortunately, this applies to ladies of all ages, whether thin or heavy. This kind of dress is sinful because it is immodest.
In 1 Timothy 4:12, Paul wrote to the young, “Let no one despise your youth, but be an example to the believers in word, in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity.” Young people, you can have a great influence on the older generation—as well as upon your peers!
Unfortunately, mothers and fathers do not teach their teenage daughters to dress properly. The daughters are permitted to leave the house improperly dressed. We as parents have a very grave responsibility to teach our teens how and why they should dress properly. We as parents are to lead these young ladies to respect themselves and most importantly to respect God’s Word. Therefore, parents ought to dress modestly, also. We cannot expect our teens to dress properly if we as parents neither teach them nor set the right example.
First Timothy 2:9-10 reads, “In like manner also, that the women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with propriety and moderation, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or costly clothing, but, which is proper for women professing godliness, with good works.” The definition of modesty is not bringing excessive attention to oneself. We should dress in a way that professes godliness. This verse is for all women of all ages and all women around the world.
Older women are to teach younger women through instruction and example. Paul penned in Titus 2:3-5, “The older women likewise, that they be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things—that they admonish the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, homemakers, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be blasphemed.”
Ladies, let us all put on holiness—living for Christ and not living for Satan. Our souls depend on our way of life! The souls of our daughters may very well depend on our way of life, too.
