According to a saying, the
way you dress is the way you will be addressed. There is no gainsaying about this statement
than to say that your appearance matters a lot. One may be wondering how the
way you dress can affect your personality or can help boost your discovery. But
we should understand something that people around you get attracted to what
they see about
you even before you introduce yourself.
Dressing in this modern world has become a heated debate on how
people should dress or appear. To some people there is nothing bad in the way
you dress so far you know yourself and you are born again. To some people, dressing gorgeously and flamboyantly
tell others that you’ve
got what it takes
to blend with
the trend of things. While to some people moderation is the key. To me, I belong to the school of thought that believes in moderate
dressing to reflect moral living.
There are one thousand and
one ways by
which your
appearance will bring people closer to you. Irrespective of your background, culture, educational
qualification or social stratification, you don’t have excuse to dress
abnormally.
The reason for this has
been the issue that keeps cropping up in our society. Some parents don’t care whether their children have
the necessary materials
they need in
school. Things like uniform, text books, note books and others. But they prefer
to spend their
money on ‘partying’ which
usually involves buying attires and other unnecesary spendings. They want to
wear latest clothes
in town. They want people to know that they are around; they desire attention but all these at
the expense of their children’s education. To some people, they value their
boxes of jewelries than their children. Their gold, silver and diamond are
their treasures. That explained what is prevalent in the society today. You see ‘touts’ increasing in our society and
in our various universities students’ involvement in cultism is also on the increase.
Their
parents have used their time pursuing irrelevant things. The mothers have
turned to painters.
They paint every parts of their body like Jezebel. In II King 9:30-37 “Then Jehu went to Jezreel. When Jezebel
heard about it, she painted her eyes, arranged her hair and looked out of a
window. As
Jehu entered the gate, she asked, “Have you come in peace, Zimri, you murderer
of your master?”
He looked up at the window and called out,
“Who is on my side? Who?” Two or three eunuchs looked down at him. “Throw her
down!” Jehu said. So they threw her down, and some of her blood spattered the
wall and the horses as they trampled her underfoot.
Jehu went in and ate and drank. “Take care
of that cursed woman,” he said, “and bury her, for she was a king’s daughter.”
But when they went out to bury her, they found nothing except her skull, her
feet and her hands. They went back and told Jehu, who said, “This is the word
of the Lord that he spoke through his servant
Elijah the Tishbite: On the plot of ground at Jezreel dogs will devour
Jezebel’s flesh. Jezebel’s body will be like refuse on the ground in the plot
at Jezreel, so that no one will be able to say, ‘This is Jezebel.” (NIV)
In verse 30 of II King 9
Jezebel painted her eyes with black and every part of her body. But loo and behold when she died,
dog ate parts of her body but left those places she painted. It shows that the
painted areas are irritating to even the dogs. If it is irritating to dogs, how acceptable will this be to God and
your personality?
Watch the way you appear.
When you focus on the future you will care less about the way you adorn your
body – you can give the best you have to give your generation the best they
deserve. If it will take you to wear a pair of clothes to bring your success to
the open, do it. Don’t wear your life as clothes; don’t adorn your success with
unnecessary things and unprofitable ventures. Let your existence and presence
on earth cause a change around you.
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