I used to be lectured about how I dress from my mother, my sister and several of my bosses. I always thought it was because their bodies were frump factories and mine was curvaceous in all of the right places.

To date only one of my friends who was beautiful had told me very kindly to not wear a bikini. I still did though.

That was until I asked God to go shopping with me. I wrote about that day in an earlier post. God didn’t put me down, nor did he make me think He was just insecure. What He did do was show me some clothes which showed off my long legs but didn’t exposse my cleavage.

After that shopping trip I started to reevaluate my wardrobe. This summer I was in quite a fix. I had some stunning maxi dresses but they were very low cut. I didn’t want to show that much cleavage so I looked through my closet and found some tank tops which had a higher neck line and layered them under the maxi dresses. One of the tank tops matched so well it looked as if it was part of the dress.

My patients always love the way I dress up for them. I like the fact that the sweet old ladies rave about how pretty I am. I always tell one of them “when you are visiting a queen it is important to look like a princess.” She always breaks into a smile when I say this.

It is more than this though. When I used to dress with a seductive intent I was dressing to bring attention to myself. I got way too much attention and all the wrong kind of attention. Now I dress to please others, not me and it is twice as much fun.

I have learned that how I dress can be a distraction to the message I am to bring to others about Christ. It is important that I dress not only to please others but most importantly to please Him.