Bible Reading: Deuteronomy 22:1-9
Key Verse: Verse 5 - “The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.
Key Words: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.
J. Vernon McGee tells the following: “As my wife and I were driving to San Francisco, we were behind a little Volkswagen. I remarked that the wife was driving and the man was sitting next to her, and she was driving pretty fast. When they were going up a hill, they couldn’t maintain their speed, so I passed them. Do you know that I was wrong? The man was driving and the woman was sitting beside him. That man looked like a woman, and the woman looked like a man.” Today, they would fit right in even though God clearly tells us that it is sinful.
Did you know that cross-dressing isn’t a new thing? In 1702, Queen Anne appointed her cousin Edward Hyde, Viscount Cornbury, as governor-general of New York and New Jersey. At his welcoming banquet, he paid tribute to his wife’s ears, inviting the men present to feel them. One evening not long afterward, a woman rushed up to a watchman and pulled his ears. “She” turned out to be the royal governor. Thereafter Cornbury would often parade around in his wife’s dresses and, shrieking with laughter, pounce on other men’s ears. He even wore a dress to his wife’s funeral. All the time, Cornbury claimed he was simply trying to represent the queen by resembling her “as faithfully as I can.”
Maybe he should have dressed for the glory of God, not the queen.
Dr. Mike Rouse
What to do:
✞Let others see Jesus through you and that includes how we dress.
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