[GTranslate]

HOW DO YOU MEASURE UP IN YOUR MODESTY ?

In the past this would be something the older generation would voice aiming at  the younger generation, but it seems times have changed and more than often, old and young both need to take a good look and  re evaluate there own personal world view regarding modesty as this will inevitably determine our outward behaviour. Does it measure up to Gods definition toward been modest in our daily walk.

Or is this just another old fashioned mindset?????  Read on…

[DDET (expand full article)]

Webster defines modesty as: “the sense of propriety; the absence of all tendency to overestimate oneself; unobtrusiveness; decorum; decency; chastity and purity; moderation; freedom from exaggeration and excess”.

He notes that the Latin root modestia which means “moderation, keeping within bounds”.

He adds that word modest means “behaving according to a standard of what is proper or decorous; decent; pure; especially, not displaying one’s body; quiet and humble in appearance, style; virtuous”.

This word is not found in the O.T., but consider the word order (#6186) which means: “to set in a row; arrange; put in order” (Genesis 22:9; Leviticus 1:8; 24:8; Psalm 23:5).

This Hebrew word is also used in military sense of preparing for battle by ordering the army.  In the N.T., the Greek word for modest is “kosmios” (#2887) and means: “orderly, decorous”.  It is rendered as “of good behaviour, modest”.

Vine’s Dictionary of N.T. Words adds that kosmios means: “orderly, well-arranged, decent, modest (akin to kosmos, in its primary sense as harmonious arrangement, adornment), and is used in: 1 Timothy 2:9 of the apparel with which Christian women are to adorn themselves; and in   1 Timothy 3:2 (R.V., “orderly”, A.V., “of good behaviour”), of one of the qualifications essential for a bishop or overseer”.

The well-ordering is not of dress and demeanor only, but of the inner life of God, uttering indeed and expressing itself in the outward conversation!

Modesty is not old-fashioned !! – It is not old order !! – It is not the way of the world!!

Friend……Young person, is there order in Your life?….Your dress? …..Your manners?…..Your words?……Your closet?

Young lady, you’re called to be a Christ like woman.

Young man, you’re called to oversee your future wife and children, and maybe a church or ministry, a business or working environment of some sort. Here we will all affect the lives of others

 How about your mouth?  Have you kept within the bounds of your belief system regarding modesty and is your belief system in alignment with a Kingdom, biblical view or perspective?  Are your words ordered by the Holy Ghost?

Do you know how to prepare your speech to do warfare in the Spirit?  Or how to pray in the Holy Ghost? (Romans 8:26-27; Jude 20).

If there is chaos in your heart, your mouth will be destructive and not constructive (Matthew 12:34-37).  How modest is your mouth?

How about your manners?  Do you know how to say, “Please … thank you … excuse me … yes, sir … no, ma’am … good morning …”?

How sad, that so many folks young and old have not reconciled their obedience to the dignity of their (new) birth in Christ.

Young man, do you know how to open a door for a woman, a girl or a young child?

Young lady, do you know how to be courteous to the elderly?

Sinners and worldly people will laugh at you, but, the dead know nothing! For the living know they will die; but the dead do not know anything, nor have they any longer a reward, for their memory is forgotten. (Eccl 9:5).

And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience. Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest. (Eph 2:1-3)

Some just have no manners.

They are not thankful, and “… professing themselves to be wise, then (have become) fools”.  Wise up, young person! Wise up friend! (Romans 1:21-22; 1 Corinthians 1:18-31).

How about your mantle?  How do you appear to other people?

This involves two areas:  your dress and your demeanor. Friend is your appearance shabby or shining?  How is it home … at church … in society

….or young man how is it at the home of your girlfriend and her parents?  Is there order in your room?  Get in front of a mirror and take a good, long look … at your heart!

….Young lady, do you know that God created male and female … which one do you resemble?  When Adam first saw Eve, I believe that he said “WOW!!”.  Be a lady, and look and behave like one! But make sure that you understand that outward beauty is vain unless the inward beauty of the Lord adorns your heart (Proverbs 31:30; 1 Peter 3:1-6).

The word demeanor means “outward behaviour, conduct, deportment”.

Which Kingdom do you minister for or represent?  You may be sporting the latest fashion and be wearing the latest scent, but is your lifestyle reeking with the stench of sin as you proudly display the latest (and the oldest) garb of the prince of darkness … filthy rags … grave clothes … prison garments?  Take your own temperature … then I challenge you to be different in your modesty! 

There is a new generation with a new mouth, new manners and new mantle! A standard for this season and you are called to be part of that generation!

Something for you to meditate on:

In what areas is my life out of order?

What is the reputation of my mouth?

Am I rude?

Do I look or act crude?

[GTranslate]

[/DDET]