Have you ever asked someone how a certain outfit “made you look”? Do you suppose that anyone has ever asked God how a certain outfit “made her loo
k” in His eyes?
In First Timothy 2:9-10, Our Father says, “I desire…that women adorn themselves” in “modest” (NKJV), “proper” (NASB), “respectable” (ESV) apparel. He goes on to use two words to expound on what is respectable–“shamefastness and sobriety.” One scholar (J.H. Bernard) notes that the Greek word for shamefastness implies “(1) a moral repugnance to what is base and unseemly, and (2) self-respect, as well as restraint imposed on oneself from a sense of what is due to others…[The word] signifies that modesty which shrinks from overstepping the limits of womanly reserve.” Interesting that the definition includes words like repugnance, respect, restraint and reserve! What do you suppose “womanly reserve” looks like to God?
When you get dressed, how does it look to you as a Christian? How does it look to your Father?