By Steve Higginbotham

Warmer months are quickly approaching, and with the warm weather comes the challenge of modesty.  I'm not going to lecture or give you my "opinion."  I don't want to set your standards for you, and tell you what you can and cannot wear.  All I want to do is ask you to read God's word and then answer a question.
First, God's word...
• Thou shalt not commit adultery (Exodus 20:14).
• Thou shalt not covet your neighbor's wife (Exodus 20:17).
• Whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has committed adultery in his heart (Matthew 5:28).
• Abstain from fleshly lusts that war against the soul (1 Peter 2:11).
• Flee youthful lusts (2 Timothy 2:22).
• Possess your vessel in sanctification and honor, not in passionate lusts (1 Thessalonians 4:4-5).
• Woman should dress in modest apparel; dress that professes one's godliness (1 Timothy 2:9-10).
• Let us resolve not to put a stumbling block or a cause to fall in our brother's way (Romans 14:13).
Now then, the question...
• Does the way you dress cause the opposite sex to think you are "chaste," or does it cause them to think you want to be "chased?"
Honest self-evaluation, virtue, and an unrelenting desire to be pleasing to God is all that is needed, and modesty will take care of itself.