Daily Devotional--2/2/10

1 Timothy 2:9-15

⁹I also want women to dress modestly, with decency and propriety, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or expensive clothes, ¹⁰but with good deeds, appropriate for women who profess to worship God.

¹¹A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. ¹²I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent. ¹³For Adam was formed first, then Eve. ¹⁴And Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner. ¹⁵But women will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith, love and holiness with propriety.

1 Peter 3:1-6

¹Wives, in the same way be submissive to your husbands so that, if any of them do not believe the word, they may be won over without words by the behavior of their wives, ²when they see the purity and reverence of your lives. ³Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair and the wearing of gold jewelry and fine clothes. ⁴Instead, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God's sight. ⁵For this is the way the holy women of the past who put their hope in God used to make themselves beautiful. They were submissive to their own husbands, ⁶like Sarah, who obeyed Abraham and called him her master. You are her daughters if you do what is right and do not give way to fear.

The values of respectable apparel,modesty, self-control, and good works are to be taught and modeled in the church and in the home.

• Mothers, are you modeling the adornment of a woman who professes faith in Jesus to your sons and daughters so that your daughters would emulate it and your sons would desire it?
• How might you move toward modeling this more clearly?
• Fathers, are you affirming and supporting your wives when they adorn themselves as godly women as testimony to your sons and daughters so that your sons might emulate it and your daughters would desire a man who values it?
• How might you move toward affirming and supporting this more fully?