AIDOS, Gotta love the Greek!


I am totally loving the spring these days. I've gone to the beach at least once a week. It would be just wrong not to when its only a twenty minute drive away (which as a mom takes me an hour with all the running back to the house for things I forgot, loading my stuff and Captain Wiggles things, girls have lots of baggage and I don't mean that in a bad a way).


An early nap time this morning adamantly chosen my Captain Wiggles herself gave me the opportunity for a little morning Greek study (study Greek at the beach, mmmh, now that would be divine). Here is what I learned.


SHAMEFASTNESS (A.V., SHAMEFACEDNESS)

AIDOS, a sense of shame, modesty, is used regarding the demeanor of women in the church, 1 Timothy 2:9.

Shamefastness is that modesty which is 'fast' or rooted in character...The change to 'shamefacedness' is the more regretted because shamefacedness...has come rather to describe an awkward diffidence, such as we sometimes call sheepishness (Davies; Bible English, p. 12)

restrain a good man from an unworthy act (Trench, Syn. [insert symbols here my computer doesn't possess])

Vine's Expository Dictionary of Old & New Testament Words


Honestly I think modesty has a bad rap. Shame in any form of the word is widely removed from the general population's personal lexicons. That in and of itself is a shame.


When I think of AIDOS I think of the two choices I have when choosing how I dress, how I act, how I speak, where I go and what I do. I'll pick the obvious, how I dress.


Sometimes I dress with the desire to put others before me (modesty, the desire to be a strength to others, to be a role model to not let my body detract from the work God is doing in and through me) or put myself before others (I dress in a way to get affirmation from others, a selfish ambition to use my body to garner acceptance from the world). One is what I give to the world another is what I get from it.


Some dear friends of mine Sharon and Cara introduced me years ago to the term Identity Crisis. This is an infliction many everybody has, but in particular for this discussion, Christian women on Sunday mornings. We stand in front of our closets and no matter what is in their, no matter how big our closet is, we can't find something that we will feel good in. Satan is a crafty fellow. At this point Cara explained to me that she would stop then and their and adjust her foundation. No not Covergirl or Loreal. She would adjust her personal foundation from wanting to look good for the world and even herself to the foundation of Jesus Christ that tells her she is a creation made by the hands of God for a very special purpose. I have never forgotten that. Do you think that is to lofty a goal for you to attain? Cara was fifteen when she told me that. If a fifteen year old can master it (with the Holy Spirit's strength in her of course) then this thirty your old Christian blogging before you sure can. So can you!


God calls us too! Our husband's sanity needs us too!

Comments

Warren Baldwin said…
Katie,
It sounds like you are really enjoying this Greek word study. That is great.

Unfortunately modesty is not given the attention it needs today, by men or women.

I have a book on cultural values that talks about a professor in an advertising class showing a picture of a woman in a bathing suit being used to market some merchandise. All the young men in the class stared at the picture, while a Japanese man turned away and refused to look. When the professor asked what was wrong the Japanese student exlained that in his culture men were not allowed to see women dressed like that. (That was 30 years ago when I read the book in graduate school; I don't know how the culture there is now). The point: our culture has become so exploitive that we don't even recognize it anymore.

Your post is right on target. Thanks.

Thanks for participating in the "Marriage Book" posts coming up. I look forward to reading the book you select and the comments you make. If any of your readers want to participate they can as well. It is interesting to see the selection of titles I have already been sent.

Take care. Look forward to reading your next word study.

wb
April 08, 2010 1:28 PM
Joanne said…
Thank you for posting about modesty - it is a much neglected thing today. I also posted about modest if you are interested in reading what I have to say. I am not sure if I am done with it yet or not ... someone else is looking over it right now to see if there is something I need to add or take away.

Here's the direct link if you are interested - that way you don't have to sift through my blog to find it! http://fewtherebethatfindit.blogspot.com/2010/04/modesty-and-role-of-women.html

Lord bless you as you follow Him - have a great day!

In Christ, Joanne in MO
May 03, 2010 3:07 PM
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