Dress Without Drawing Attention
DON’T dress so as to make yourself conspicuous. Of course, in a fashionable company, Christian dress is necessarily conspicuous, but among the common, plain people it need not be so. Don’t dress so that others will be thinking about your appearance, or so that you will be thinking about it yourself. Why?—Because there is something more important to think about than dress. “Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness,” says Jesus. Our mind is to be upon this, our time and energies devoted to this, and not to those things that are merely incidental. When we are in the congregation, or upon the street, or elsewhere, we should not be thinking about how finely or fashionably we are dressed, nor how unfashionably we are dressed; we should be so dressed that we shall not be thinking about dress at all. Dress is one means of fastening a person’s thoughts on himself—where they ought not to be. The Christian must be self-forgetful. The dress for which he—or she—is to seek is the one that is worn by Jesus Christ.