Right from the onset, just after creation, man began earning
profound influence from its environment (either negative or positive). Our
first parents (Adam and Eve) are today remembered to be the premier
"Mumu’s" who fell to the negative influence of the environment due to
cowardice as they fell prey to the antics of an external stimulus presented by
the serpent at the expense of their joy,
fulfilment and everlasting life.
Unfortunately, our today's society has systematically evolved and
improvised on the Garden of Eden's stimulus, thereby institutionalizing
millions of innocent individuals to its corrupting influence.
For example, there are noticeable evolving changes in the dressing
and grooming of individuals for decades now. As a matter of fact, today, the
essence of wearing dresses has been thrown into the mud as a handful of
individuals are obsessed with what the majority are putting on or what’s
trending. Dresses are now worn to exhibit nakedness instead of covering it.
An elderly man was strolling down the street one cool evening as
he wanted to keep fit. But unfortunately, his fitness turned to sadness. Why?
Just few minutes of his stroll, he started seeing some sort of season film as
if he was hallucinating; young girls were dressed and groomed just like an
unfeathered hen, as young boys couldn't be differentiated from touts.
At a point, 'Baba' halted one of the girls and asked; "Did
your parents see you before you left home?" The young girl felt embarrassed
as she kept quiet, facing downwards. The elderly man continued; "You
better go back and appear responsible." The girl thereafter turned back in
shame.
Moreover, it would not be out of place to state that this young
girl is a robot in the control of her environment; she dressed just like some
other girls or perhaps followed the fashion trend.
Just like this young girl, very many individual have ignored the
consequences of dressing to environmental influence. Sad to say, due to
improper dressing and grooming, many became victims of rape, sexual harassments
and molestation. Some others had lost golden opportunities.
The society seems to be depreciating in its values system. Peers now see you to be an odd one out. We
now normalise abnormalities, the abnormal becomes normal while the normal
becomes abnormal all in the name fashion.
The beauty of your body is not in your ability to flaunt your
Nakedness; Beauty is something that is within you. Ladies, there is nothing
wrong in using a make-up, after all makeups add to your natural beauty when it
is used moderately but it becomes abnormal when you use it to the extreme.
Adding too much of makeups will only make you to age untimely or what is the
essence of cosmetics that couldn’t differentiate you from masquerades?
Flaunting your boobs, cleavage, thighs or your knickers devalues
your worth, this might be appealing to
some men but the fact is that a real man will appreciate you more when you
appreciate your body. This starts from within, when you fail to appreciate what
you have; you give room for people to downgrade your self-esteem.
Paul Tarsus in his letters to the Corinthians church in 1
Corinthians 6: 19-20 tells us how valuable our body is:
“What? Know ye not that your body is the
temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not
your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body,
and in your spirit, which are God's” (KJV.)
How you treat your body matters and can affect your spiritual growth.
You can look nice, presentable and godly without being naked or partly naked
all in the craziness of fashion!
It’s amazing when you go to boutiques/shops to purchase clothes
that reveal half of your body when there are nice cloths in the same boutique
that even cost less. I wonder how a normal person pays more to devalue his/her
body and pay less to present his/her body appropriately.
You can defer with me on this, but would it be proper to be lost
in unnecessary want of the world by following every available fashion trend?
This is not limited to some ladies alone; there are many men that also display
the above characteristics. They (ladies and gentlemen) anxiously go to the
shops and through magazine and Internet to see what is in vogue and the latest
trend in town. Not that it is bad to be fashionable, in fact it dignifies you
and makes you look good, however it becomes abnormal when your dressing becomes
a tool for other people's downfall or sin.
The fact that you reveal your body or you cover up a lot does not
draw the right man, your body is not a sale product in which you use all
markets strategies to entice consumers in other to get the highest bidders.
It’s what you carry inside and your desires for God’s will that will eventually
bring the right Man that is God's chosen for you.
Our values system has deteriorated to the extent that it is very
difficult these days to distinguish between a church gathering and a club
house. I give kudos to the churches that do not join the society to “legalise the
illegality”. Houses of God shouldn’t drop their morale standards; it should be
a place where such devilish act shouldn’t be condoned. I am not saying you
should dress as if you are mourning in God's presence but you must be conscious
of what you wear always. Remember your body is the living temple of God and so
must not be put in the mud.
Some guys (ladies not
exempted) measure the degree at which they are fashionable with the rate at
which they can sag (to wear one’s trousers so that the top is well below the
waist). A very observant person can easily see the lines that separate their
buttocks into a pair. How I wish they could trace the history of sagging and
the kind of people that started the act. I wonder if that is fashion or
madness!
Do not use your body as an instrument of destruction or
backsliding to others.
You are beautiful no matter what people say. Your beauty is hidden
deep inside you, it is not till you front them. It should show the uniqueness
in you (God’s glory) and not the other way round. Do not let your body be an
element of abnormalities in the name of crazy fashion trend. If you were to
stand before God in that clothe, will He welcome you?
Dress responsibly! Don’t join in the anomalies.
Written by:
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Linus Kingdom Madueke.
Writer, Public Affair Analyst,
And an Interior Designer.
+2347030062219
Email: maduekelinus@gmail.com
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