A Case for Modesty

[deacon blues]

I'm in Elizabethtown, KY tonight on my way to Ohio. Watching cable news in my hotel room. I saw footage of the poor young lady who was kidnapped and murdered in Bro. Riggens hometown of Olathe, KS. Very, very sad, very, very tragic.

In no way is this young lady's murder ever justified under any circumstances, but I could not help but notice what this young lady was wearing in the security video from the Target store where she was abducted. The despicable young man who has been arrested for her murder was said to be suspected as a stalker. There will be no way of knowing this perhaps, unless this murderer confesses and describes in detail his mental processes, but after seeing her in short shorts and a revealing tank top I wondered if he selected her from the crowd because of all of the flesh she was exposing.

Please do not read this the wrong way! There is no excusing the actions of this evil person! No one deserves such a tragic end to their lives. This young man was looking for a victim and found it in this innocent young lady. My thinking was had this young lady been dressed more modestly, would the perpetrator have passed on her for another young lady.

Its all pure speculation, no one can say for sure, but it made me think how important it is for ladies to remain modest. First and foremost because modesty is pleasing to God. Second, there are a lot of really sick individuals in this world, even in small town America, and women do not need to wear ANYTHING that may draw attention to themselves from ogling eyes. At best it encourages unscrupulous men to gaze and lust. At worst it may gain the attention of a perverse individual who has decided to cross the line from pornographic fantasies to acting out the warped images in their minds.

I appreciate my modest wife! I fully intend to instill modesty principles into the hearts of my sons and daughter! Thank God for being a part of a holiness movement that has always stood for prudence and discretion in our women!