Question:
Why should how I wear my hair make any difference to God? Why should it make any difference to Him whether my hair is cut or not, whether it is short or long, whether I look masculine, or whether I look feminine? Why should it make any difference? Why should He be concerned with what I wear? All He is concerned about is my heart. Isn’t that really the truth?
Answer:
The Bible (which is God’s words to us right out of His heart) tells us that God does care, and that there are several sound and solid reasons why it does make a difference to Him. If we loved God, we will want to listen to what He has to say, and then do those things that please Him and avoid doing those things that displease Him.
True, He is primarily concerned about your heart. But if your heart is as it ought to be, you will want to obey what He tells you to do in the words of the Book He has given us.
His Word says that it is disgraceful in God’s eyes for a man to have long hair. (I Corinthians 11:14)
His Word says that God has given long hair to a woman for a covering and a glory. (I Corinthians 11:15)
His Word says that a woman must not pray or speak in church without her head being covered (I Corinthians 11:5) with long hair (verse 15)
His Word says that a man must not pray or speak in church unless the covering (of long hair) has been cut off (I Corinthians 11:4)
His Word says that God’s churches have no custom contrary to this teaching. (I Corinthians 11:16)
Why did God make these rules about hair? The study of typology explains this. Man is a type of Christ, woman of the church. Long hair is symbolical of subjection. For a man to have long hair is to symbolize that Christ is not the head of the church. For women to cut their hair is to teach that the church need not be subject to Christ. So you can see that God considers this a very important matter.
If we are real Christians, not just lukewarm, professing church members, we will respect God’s express desires in this matter and want to please Him in every way.
Boys will keep their hair trimmed above their collars, their ears showing, clean shaven, and sideburns well trimmed.
Girls will let their hair grow long without trimming or thinning.
God’s Word also teaches us how we ought to dress. His Word tells us that any immodest clothing such as mini-skirts are out (I Timothy 2:9)
His Word says that it is important to Him that men dress like men and women dress like women (Deuteronomy 22:5)
His Word in the same verse tells us that for girls to wear slacks or other mail-copied articles, or for fellows to wear frilly, feminine-type clothing is an “abomination” (a hateful and detestable thing) unto the Lord. This also goes for uni-sex style clothing, alike for both fellows and girls.
God is concerned about our identification – about whether our dress identifies us with His church or with the world. God does not want us identifying with the ungodly. Any Christian who dresses to appear like the world identifies with them, and God said that “if any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him” (I John 2:15)
If a man doesn’t want the sheep to think him a wolf, he shouldn’t walk among the flock on hands and knees with wolfskin on!
There is a Christian custom (I Corinthians 11:16), and God’s people should dress according to that custom. The question we should ask is, Does my dress say, “I belong to this world?” or does it say, “I am separate from the world, I belong to God?” Your dress identifies you with the group you most like, the godly, or the ungodly.
May our hearts be so in love with Jesus that we will desire to please Him in our dress, in the way we wear our hair, and in every other way too.
“You were not created to complete another, but to complement.”
How true that statement is! Many, including myself, have been on the quest to be complete with someone else. You know the simple line that Tom Cruise’s character in Jerry Maguire said to the woman he finally realized he loved, “You complete me.” Everyone woman wanted to hear that from a man after seeing that movie. But what we don’t understand is that we should complement the other. We should be complete in Jesus. If a woman is not complete in Jesus, she will be a drain read More >
Definition of skirt, pants, trousers, and pantalets
Skirt – v. to border, wrap, or cover with a skirt or something suggesting a skirt in appearance or function. N. the part of a gown, dress, slip, or coat that extends downward from the waist.
Pants – n. trousers
Trousers – n. sometimes, trouser, also called pants, a usually loose fittings outer garment for the lower part of the body, having individual leg portions that reach typically to the ankle but sometimes to any of various other points from the upper leg down. Idiom – wear the pants, to have the dominant role; be in charge: I guess we know who wears the pants in that family.
1830-40; short for pantaloons.
Pantalets – n. Long drawers extending below the skirt, with a frill or other finish at the bottom of the leg, commonly worn by women and girls in the 19th century.
Ten years ago I was living in our first home that we bought and trying to find my place in life. My Momma was over and looking out my front window. “Thea, look at that girl’s pretty hair!” Our new neighbors, whom I hadn’t met yet, had a young girl that had gorgeous hair down to her waist. “You know, she is wearing a dress and riding a bike! That has to be hard.” My Momma was very curious about this little girl. I never really took notice of the details that were being pointed out to me. “Do you think they are a certain read More >
A Poem written by Carl Gooch. Carl is a relative of mine and he has a couple of books in stores.
Here lately I have been thinking I was going crazy because I had so much going on and usually I can handle multi tasks. My life was becoming chaotic and I was feeling like a heavy burden was on my shoulders, weighing me down. I have talked to multiple people on the phone who all made the same comment, “You sound down, are you ok?”
I have been taken over by the Facebook bug and couldn’t seem to get out of the 4 games I was playing. I had google alerts for 5 different topics that I wanted to keep on top of, coming to my email account 50 times a day, or so it seemed. I started a new class for my Real Estate and then was looking into getting my associates in Psychology. Making sure kids are doing what they are suppose to and going to all the games. Whew! I’m tired just writing it all down. Reading it makes my chest fill tight again. BREATHE! read More >
In people’s selfish ambitions to be more, get more, etc… our world changes.
In this day and time, change has happened to make life easier so we are lazier, heavier and our morals are dying with the ages. There is more selfishness to make one’s life easier. When it’s distancing one farther away from righteousness.
What is “righteousness”? It is living right. That is how I remember it. To help you live “right” requires obedience to the Lord.
How can these selfish ambitions and obedience live together? Selfish ambition leads to death, obedience leads to life.
Righteousness is living right. Once you find yourself being obedient to the Word, next would come sanctification. read More >
Alright, how many of you have been to a Bible study? Did you like it? I was involved with Bible studies from 1995 until 3 years ago. I haven’t been to church except maybe 3 times in the past 3 years. Why?
Well, I just don’t want me or my family to get hurt again or get in the wrong frame of mind. ”Get in the wrong frame of mind”? How can you get in the wrong frame of mind by going to church? Very easily. read More >
