This is a question I received in my email not long ago. Following is my response.
I am a woman and have to wear pants to work. I am starting to feel conflicted about it. I know that Deuteronomy 22:5 says that a woman should not wear clothing that pertains to a man, but I can’t help it. Yet I feel bad about it. What should I do?
Hi! Great question! Let me answer you with a little story.
When we first moved here to Louisiana, my husband got a job at a store that sold alcohol and cigarettes. He took the job because we seriously needed the income, but as time wore on, he started to feel conflicted about selling those items.
He began to feel his conscience pricked because he was selling those things (alcohol, tobacco, sugar, etc.) that defile the body – the temple of the Holy Spirit.
So we began to pray for direction.
I won’t go into all the details, but here is the short version.
After praying about it (both of us) and believing that we heard from God, he stepped out in faith and walked away from that job.
Immediately our living situation changed so that we weren’t paying as much. Our income not only increased to accommodate what we lost from his job, but I was able to back off my own work – and we still make more money than we did when he was working his job and I was working about 70 hours a week.
But that isn’t the end of the story. Our ministry TOOK OFF! We now have a small fellowship in our area, people are getting baptized, getting the Holy Ghost, and we don’t have to go knock the first door because God is sending the people to us!
That one small step of faith has opened so many doors! We did not wait for God to change our situation and make it comfortable for us to take action, we acted in faith and took action. Then God blessed us and continues to do so.
Consider this:
Luke 12:24
Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls?
Hebrews 13:5
Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
Matthew 6:19-34 gives us a very clear picture of where God wants our focus and where He wants our faith and trust to lie.
This is not to tell you what to do, but to turn your mind in a Godly direction. This is how you work these things out, through prayer and scripture because when you stand in judgment, God won’t judge you based on what other people told you, but what you sought in His word.
Revelation 20:12 tells us that we will be judged by the Book, by how closely we adhered to scripture. And honestly, that is between you and God.
As a woman who went through this herself, I now counsel other women on this same topic quite frequently. The world will tell you that you are limited if you dress modestly, that there are things you cannot do in a skirt. I am here to tell you that is nothing but a lie from hell!
They will tell you that you are stuck in your situation and must “play the game” in order to remain employed/pay your bills/earn an income.
Another lie.
I dress modestly and it has NEVER hindered me! I might be the only girl in a skirt, but so be it. It has not stopped me or even slowed me down. I can still ride a bike, hike in the woods, work out at the gym, even change a tire on the side of the road.
Dressing modestly is not a punishment. It is a privilege to be able to serve a God that you love so much that you are willing to shed the world to be one of His.
Take it into your prayer closet and lay it all out for Him. Does your family depend on your income to survive? Remind Him of that! Do you feel like you have no choice but to continue this course? Tell Him! Of course He knows all this, but He wants us to lay ourselves out before Him, humble ourselves and seek Him FIRST.
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On this ascension day, I find myself reading your article and am so glad that I did, having first begun with that of the thigh and nakedness. It spurred from a Bible reading that directed my attention towards modesty. Of course, there were plenty of people stating that it is subjective, but I knew better. But for the sake of my 16 yr old daughter and for my own growing questions (after having tried to study it through the bible dictionaries, 3-language dictionary/bible, and asking some of whom I would consider walking in God’s will) I finally first wanted to start with what God called nakedness by way of Adam and Eve. Of course, not having measurements but rather the picture in mind of what an apron would look like as opposed to a coat, I needed to go further. I needed to know where I (so long ago) got the idea about nakedness being thigh-upward –outside of by my old preacher. You helped there with pointing out the scripture. Everything thereafter just made sense biblically and I had to ask myself why I wondered it in the first place. But we must constantly affirm those things that “look” like convictions but are actually a call to holiness. Thank you for being a conduit of God’s grace by sharing what you, in your time with the Lord, have learned.
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