Distraction Temptation

Cheerleading uniforms at one Connecticut high school are under protest for being too revealing, but it's not the school, parents or fans that are complaining.

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Cheerleaders Protest Against Revealing Uniforms

Last October 6th (2010) it was cheerleader modesty in the headlines: The cheerleaders at Central High School in Bridgeport are protesting their own uniforms, saying they are too skimpy. Fed up, they even took their case before the Board of Education to request new uniforms.

How refreshing!

Walk across any Junior high, High School or College campus today and you won't believe how young girls dress. We are bombarded with scantily-clad females young and old at every turn: TV, Time Square, magazines, movies, sporting events, commercial advertizing.....it's everywhere, as far as the eyes can see. If a guy doesn't get around much his own computer provides the darkness of pornography right there in the secret hour in his home. Talk about temptation for impure thoughts. How are men suppose to fight off these images when they are inundated daily?

A pearl to string: Women we are NOT the whole problem that is for sure but we can help.  God's Word tells us in first Timothy 2:9 that women should wear “respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control.” The word respectable here means: orderly, decent, not causing distraction or temptation.   Nancy DeMoss contrasted the world's view with God's heart in one of her devotionals:

The world says: “Beauty is mostly on the outside.”

God's heart: "Beauty is internal and spiritual.”

The world says: “Your body is your identity.”

God's heart: “Your body is a temple—it houses your soul.”

The world says: “Your body belongs to you and no other.”

God's heart: “God made you. Your body belongs to Him.”

The world says: "If you’ve got it, flaunt it!”

God's heart: “Show humility and modesty.”

The world says: “Don’t cover it up. You’ve got to draw attention to yourself.”

God's heart: “Draw attention to the spirit and heart.”

Did you ever think the choices you make in clothing reflects your heart?  Wow, I don't think I ever did either.  Modesty doesn’t begin with our clothing it starts in the heart. I know I don't want my appearance to reflect the world's philosophy or to be a distraction or cause temptation. I always want to reflect God's heart in word, deed and now I add dress. Of course I fall short many times but that's the direction I want to grow and it's my prayer.

In His heart

You are treasured and loved,

                                       Lyndi

Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart.  ~ Psalm 37:4