Privacy Prevails: Qs (only)

PrivacyPrevails: Qs (only)

1. When is being cheap overboard? I have money, why can’t i spend it? Note: Money is God-given.
2. So what do your clothes say about your heart? What would we discover if we met your closet before we met you? Do your clothes reveal a heart of modesty and self-control? Note:In other words, the immodest girl seeks to dress in a way that draws attention to herself and to her body, instead of serving others and bringing glory to the Savior.

I think i can safely answer these two questions with one [stone]. Living a life that glorifies God, that’s what we who profess the faith should aim to do. So in everything that we do, be it the clothes we wear, the money we handle, or our entertainment, we should aim to glorify God. The choices you make in the gray areas should reflect your concern not to bring offense to God’s reputation but to bring Him praise instead.

Some questions to ask when encountering gray areas are:

1. Will it benefit me spiritually?

All things are lawful, but not all things are profitable. All things are lawful, but not all things edify. [1 Cor 10:23]

2. Will it bring bondage?

All things are lawful for me, but not all things are profitable. All things are lawful for me, but i will not be mastered by anything. [1 Cor 6:12]

3. Will it defile God’s temple(your body)?

Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body. [1 Cor 6:19-20]

4. Will it cause anyone to stumble?

Food will not commend us to God; we are neither the worse if we do not eat, nor the better if we do eat. But take care lest this liberty of yours somehow becomes a stumbling block to the weak. [1 Cor 8:8-9]

5. Will it further the cause of evangelism?

Give no offense either to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God; just as i also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved. [1 Cor 10:32-33]

6. Will it violate my conscience?

He who doubts is condemned if he eats, because his eating is not from faith; and whatever is not from faith is sin. [Rom 14:23]

7. Will it bring glory to God?

Therefore, whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. [1 Cor 10:31]