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Modest Clothing
I found an interesting little point the other day in studying 1 Tim. 2:9-10, the text says, "In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array; But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works." I was looking up this word sobriety in Strong’s concordance. According to Mr. Strong, this word, #4997, means "soundness of mind, i.e. (lit.) sanity". Thus I learned that when women (and men) dress in modest, decent apparel; having the attitudes of shamefacedness and sobriety, that they have a soundness of mind, that they are showing forth "sanity" of mind by their good choices in the modest clothes they wear.
Also along this line in Luke 8, we read and interesting account of a man that was demon possessed, in the country of Gadarenes. In verse 27 the text records, "And when he went forth to land, there met him out of the city a certain man, which had devils long time, and ware no clothes, neither abode in any house, but in the tombs." As we read on in this account in Luke 8, verses 28-34 describes how Jesus cast out the demons from the man, and how they entered into the swine. Then the record goes on to say in verse 35, "Then they went out to see what was done; and came to Jesus, and found the man, out of whom the devils were departed, sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid." Thus we would learn from this passage that a man in his "right mind" will be wearing his clothes. And that a man that does not where his clothes, is not in his "right mind." I guess we would have to say, that folks who dress immodestly, are displaying "insanity." And we would also have to say, that folks who dress modestly, are displaying "sanity." God wants us to have a spirit of modesty, having a sense of shame that provokes us to want to wear our clothes and to cover the shame of our nakedness, Rev.3:18. With the weather being hot, many folks are taking too many clothes off and dressing immodestly, which is insanity in the spiritual realm.
