Who Is the "Itsy Bitsy" Bringing Glory To?

Scenario 1:

Kids are running crazy through the house.  You just stepped out of shower.  Doorbell has been ringing.    Nobody can hear it because they are playing crazy LOUD.  You are expecting a parent of a child that is at your house playing.  Frantic to get something on and answer the door.  Bra and panties on, you head to the front door to greet child's parent.  Child's parent is his Dad.

Scenario 2:

Saturday night you hosted dinner at your house.  You plate everyone's salad, remove lasagna from oven, slice the bread, fill the drinks, and serve.  Oh yeah, you are hosting dinner in your bra and panties.  Dinner is served.  Let's sit around the table and have a nice conversation...while you chill in your bra and panties.  Time for dessert.  Everyone still sitting at the table while you serve dessert walking around in your bra and panties.   

Call me crazy, but these scenarios I just painted are happening everyday during these summer months.   Change the 1st one to kids are playing in sprinkler and you are in backyard and walk through house to answer door in a bikini.  All I did was change the location to the backyard from the bathroom and interchanged the word bikini {reality...they are the same thing}.  And in scenario 2, location is on your back deck with friends and interchange bikini for undergarments.   So, the bikini has a different name than bra and panties, but they are one and the same.  Actually, I take that back, I have seen some swimsuits that offer pretty much no coverage.

You are at the beach enjoying God's beautiful creations and soaking in all the rays....in your panties and bra...with hundreds of other people...and GOD.  Yeah, he is there too.  

"Am I a God at hand declares the Lord, and not a God far away?  Can a man hide himself in secret places so that I cannot see him? declares the Lord.  Do I not fill heaven and earth?  declares the Lord." ~Jeremiah 23:23-24

I am pretty sure most of you have seen this video or have at least seen it floating around Facebook.  This lady goes into the history of the bikini.  Pretty interesting facts.  

Isn't our existence to glorify God in all that we do?  

Who are we glorifying when we expose our entire body for everyone to see? 

What is the purpose?  To show off the body you have worked for?  

"Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God?  You are not your own, for you were bought with a price.  So glorify God in your body." 

~1 Corinthians 6:19-20

Does walking around in a bikini {same as your undergarments} glorify God?  Be honest!

Would you disciple someone and share the Gospel with them over coffee in your panties and bra?  How weird would that be?  Why is it okay to move from the coffee bar setting to the beach, and now all of a sudden it is okay to wear the neon printed, waterproof undergarments?  Would you sit with a couple and give biblical marriage advice in your underwear?  Would you stress the importance of purity to your daughter and her priceless value and shop for her bikini....then finish the conversation while sitting at the pool where everyone can take view of her physical assets?  Think about it.

What are we doing?  What are we teaching these young impressionable girls and boys too?  Why has society, Christians, accepted this as okay?  

"So then each of us will give an account of himself to God." ~ Romans 14:12

Modesty is not just a matter of what we wear, but the intent of our hearts as well.  Honestly some could walk around in a potato sack and still not be modest.  Our actions must be modest, our speech must be modest, and our hearts serving the Lord and serving those around us.  Who are we serving when the bikini is donned?  Who are we glorifying?  

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Maybe you agree with me.  Maybe these words and videos caused you to think.  Maybe they made you angry.  Whatever the emotion this post evokes in you, I pray that is causes you to seek His word, His wisdom, and His truth and what we can do to bring Him the most glory.