BECOMING VILE- Open heavens Devotional by Pastor E.A Adeboye

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Num 15-17
BECOMING VILE? Thursday, March 18, 2010
MEMORIZE: “Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved” (1 Cor. 10:33)    READ: 1 Samuel 3:11-14 What you wear affects what you say and how it is said. It also affects how you relate with those you interact with. Your dressing sets the tone for the day.  What are you dressed with? In those days, you could easily distinguish harlots from responsible ladies by their dressing. Today, there is hardly any difference between a harlot and some Christian ladies right in the church. What this means is that even when the dressing of harlots has not changed, that of some believers has gradually metamorphosed into harlots wears. When your skirt is going above your knees by an inch each time, you are moving towards the dressing of a harlot. When you allow slits, perforations and openings at sensitive areas of your body which reveal that you are for sale to would-be buyers, you are conforming towards harlotry. It is a shame for a married woman to wear minis, micro-minis and dresses that expose what is not for sale. It is even worse when so-called female ministers or ministers’ wives have become the object of temptation for the flock they are supposed to be leading. If your dressing is sentencing souls to hell, know that you have already made your eternal reservations in hell. How are you dressing? Is God glorified by your dressing?  One way to identify a mad man is by his dressing. Can you imagine somebody deliberately applying starch on his hair so that it can stand? Or, after purchasing a nice pair of trousers, the fellow will take a blade and rip it in shreds before certifying it ‘fit’ for wearing? What madness! Do you know that God will hold many of us responsible for misleading our children?Train up a child: How to tell your child about God Eli ruined his ministry and died before his time having fallen out of favor with God because he could not bring up his children in God’s ways.  God will also hold husbands responsible for not being able to tame their wives of excessiveness because the husband is the head of the wife. If you cannot spell out decent Christian dressing styles to your wife, then you are the one who gave her the go-ahead to be loose. And when harvest time comes, you cannot escape. In what ways has your weakness, silence or non-challance contributed to lose dressing by your children or wife? Repent and make amends today before it is too late. ACTION POINT: Have you knowingly or unknowingly influenced the youths or teens under you to dress to kill? Repent and restitute.