Maybe it’s because I live in a house with five males, but I am hyper-sensitive when it comes to modesty. I notice the lack of it in commercials, on billboards and on Jewel’s magazine racks (I’m one of those annoying people who turns smutty magazine covers around). Apart from turning around mag covers, I cannot do much else to shelter my boys’ eyes from excess skin. But I can teach them the importance of modesty and what they allow their eyes to gaze upon.

I can also lead by example.

The topic is on my mind because summer is nearing, and also because I ran across a great quote in a book by John Piper. I take this as a good challenge for myself as I choose what I’m going to wear today. Hope you can see the truth in it too.

Clothes are not meant to make people think about what is under the clothes. Clothes are meant to direct attention to what is not under them: merciful hands that serve others in the name of Christ, beautiful feet that carry the gospel where it is needed, and the brightness of a face that has beheld the glory of  Jesus.